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Clinical and neuroimaging determinants of minimally conscious and persistent vegetative states after acute stroke [PDF]
Journal of Neurocritical Care, 2019 Background Patients with persistent vegetative state (PVS) show no evidence of awareness of self or their environment, and those with minimally conscious state (MCS) have severely impaired consciousness with minimal but definite behavioral evidence of ...
Emre Kumral +3 more
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Publication trends in neuroimaging of minimally conscious states [PDF]
PeerJ, 2013 We used existing and customized bibliometric and scientometric methods to analyze publication trends in neuroimaging research of minimally conscious states and describe the domain in terms of its geographic, contributor, and content features.
Alex Garnett, Grace Lee, Judy Illes
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End-of-life decisions and involvement of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Physicians in Europe
Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2023 Objective: As Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine physicians are experts in functional prognoses of disabling health conditions, the aim of this study was to gain insight into their involvement in end-of-life decisions in patients with neurological or ...
Rutger Osterthun +3 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 Background: There are few treatments with limited efficacy for patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC), such as minimally conscious and persistent vegetative state (MCS and PVS).Objective: In this meta-analysis of individual patient data (IPD), we
Christen M. O'Neal +6 more
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2012 Introduction An 82-year-old Caucasian woman had remained in a persistent vegetative state after a coma of seven months duration, which occurred after a stroke with hemiplegia, nine years previously.
Fellerhoff Barbara +2 more
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Foods, 2022 Enteral nutrition (EN) is a rational approach to providing nutritional intake via the intestines in patients who are unable to tolerate parenteral nutrition.
Hiroshi Matsuoka +14 more
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Do Sensory Stimulation Programs Have an Impact on Consciousness Recovery?
Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 Objectives: Considering sensory stimulation programs (SSP) as a treatment for disorders of consciousness is still debated today. Previous studies investigating its efficacy were affected by various biases among which small sample size and spontaneous ...
Lijuan Cheng +8 more
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 PurposeThis paper presents a preliminary study on whether repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can modulate the nutritional status of persistent vegetative state (PVS) patients (the primary endpoint) by regulating the intestinal flora and ...
Xuan-Wei Liu +9 more
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Libyan Journal of Medicine, 2018 Patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) with severely impaired cognitive function have no survival benefit from dialysis. We therefore undertook a survey to explore the renal physicians’ practices of withholding and withdrawal of dialysis treatment
Fayez Ebrahim Alshamsi +4 more
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2020 Aim: Anoxic brain injury (ABI) due to non-fatal drowning may cause persistent vegetative state (VS) that is currently incurable. The aim of this paper is to present the safety and feasibility of autologous bone marrow-derived mononuclear cell (BMMNC ...
Nguyen Thanh Liem +10 more
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