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Awakening with amantadine from a persistent vegetative state after subarachnoid haemorrhage. [PDF]
BMJ Case Rep, 2017 We report the case of a 36-year-old woman with a subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) caused by a rupture of a right-sided middle cerebral artery aneurysm and subsequent malignant infarction of the right hemisphere leading to a persistent vegetative state and ...
Lehnerer SM +4 more
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The persistent vegetative state [PDF]
BMJ, 1995 Patients in a vegetative state seem to be awake with their eyes open but show no evidence of awareness.1 They do not interact with others and make no purposeful or voluntary responses to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimuli. They are able to breathe spontaneously, and they retain their gag, cough, sucking, and swallowing reflexes.
R S, Howard, D H, Miller
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The effectiveness of non-invasive brain stimulation on arousal and alertness in patients in coma or persistent vegetative state after traumatic brain injury: Protocol of systematic review and network meta-analysis. [PDF]
Medicine (Baltimore), 2018 Background: Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. The survivors usually suffer from disorders of consciousness, especially coma state and persistent vegetative state.
Li Y +6 more
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Persistent vegetative state. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2010 Mick Leach, commenting on David Jewell's editorial on assisted dying,1 writes that ‘we are part of a wider global society that is in many ways becoming more uniform … that does not mean that we should necessarily always take the same route as other countries’.2 I would like to underline two key cases that happened in the UK and Italy that have been ...
Carelli F.
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Responsiveness of a patient in a persistent vegetative state after a coma to weekly injections of autologous activated immune cells: a case report [PDF]
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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South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, 2015 A recent article on the Texas case of Munoz v John Peter Smith Hospital, begs the question whether if the pregnant woman had been in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) the courts in South Africa would have ordered the withdrawal of life-support ...
David McQuoid-Mason
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Open traumatic brain injury by nail gun resulting in a persistent vegetative state. [PDF]
Neurology, 2016 Thawani JP, Lucas TH.
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Persistent vegetative state [PDF]
BMJ, 2001 This week, two articles discuss the problems encountered by relatives and professionals caring for people in the persistent vegetative state (pp 352 and 372). This high profile and ethically challenging form of coma has thousands of web pages devoted to it, some crankier than others. If you want a professional view it's always best to start at the top,
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Personhood and the Persistent Vegetative State [PDF]
The Linacre Quarterly, 1990 Smith, Philip
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