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Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a new name for the vegetative state or apallic syndrome [PDF]

BMC Medicine, 2010
Background Some patients awaken from coma (that is, open the eyes) but remain unresponsive (that is, only showing reflex movements without response to command). This syndrome has been coined vegetative state.
Sazbon Leon, Sannita Walter G, León-Carrión José, Cohadon Francois, Lavrijsen Jan, Celesia Gastone G, Laureys Steven, Schmutzhard Erich, von Wild Klaus R, Zeman Adam, Dolce Giuliano   +10 more
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Normal Brain Response to Propofol in Advance of Recovery from Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome [PDF]

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016
Up to 40% of individuals with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) actually might be conscious. Recent attempts to detect covert consciousness in behaviorally unresponsive patients via neurophysiological patterns are limited by the need to compare ...
Stefanie eBlain-Moraes, Rober eBoshra, Heung Kan eMa, Richard eMah, Kyle eRuiter, Michael eAvidan, John Francis Connolly, George Alexander Mashour   +7 more
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Conscious While Being Considered in an Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome for 20 Years [PDF]

Frontiers in Neurology, 2018
Despite recent advances in our understanding of consciousness disorders, accurate diagnosis of severely brain-damaged patients is still a major clinical challenge.
Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse, Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse, Vanessa Charland-Verville, Aurore Thibaut, Aurore Thibaut, Camille Chatelle, Camille Chatelle, Jean-Flory L. Tshibanda, Jean-Flory L. Tshibanda, Audrey Maudoux, Audrey Maudoux, Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville, Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville, Steven Laureys, Olivia Gosseries   +14 more
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Levetiracetam Improves Upper Limb Spasticity in a Patient With Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome: A Case Report [PDF]

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020
Severe spasticity is a frequent and disabling complication in patients presenting disorders of consciousness (DOC) that hinders their rehabilitative process, and is strongly correlated with pain reducing patients’ quality of life.
Valeria Pingue, Marta Gentili, Anna Losurdo, Emilio Clementi, Emilio Clementi, Antonio Nardone, Antonio Nardone   +6 more
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Moral dilemmas and conflicts concerning patients in a vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: shared or non-shared decision making? A qualitative study of the professional perspective in two moral case deliberations. [PDF]

BMC Med Ethics, 2018
Patients in a vegetative state/ unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (VS/UWS) pose ethical dilemmas to those involved. Many conflicts occur between professionals and families of these patients.
Span-Sluyter CAMFH, Lavrijsen JCM, van Leeuwen E, Koopmans RTCM.   +3 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Public perception of the vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a crowdsourced study [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Background The vegetative state (VS)/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) denotes brain-injured, awake patients who are seemingly without awareness.
Daniel Kondziella, Man Cheung Cheung, Anirban Dutta   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Assessing Command-Following and Communication With Vibro-Tactile P300 Brain-Computer Interface Tools in Patients With Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome. [PDF]

Front Neurosci, 2018
Persons diagnosed with disorders of consciousness (DOC) typically suffer from motor disablities, and thus assessing their spared cognitive abilities can be difficult.
Guger C, Spataro R, Pellas F, Allison BZ, Heilinger A, Ortner R, Cho W, Xu R, La Bella V, Edlinger G, Annen J, Mandalá G, Chatelle C, Laureys S.   +13 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Sleep-like cortical OFF-periods disrupt causality and complexity in the brain of unresponsive wakefulness syndrome patients [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2018
Many brain-injured patients retain large cortical islands that are intact, active and reactive but blocked in a state of low complexity, leading to unconsciousness. Here, the authors show that this loss of complexity is due to the pathological engagement
M. Rosanova, M. Fecchio, S. Casarotto, S. Sarasso, A. G. Casali, A. Pigorini, A. Comanducci, F. Seregni, G. Devalle, G. Citerio, O. Bodart, M. Boly, O. Gosseries, S. Laureys, M. Massimini   +14 more
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Spontaneous Recovery from Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome to a Minimally Conscious State: Early Structural Changes Revealed by 7-T Magnetic Resonance Imaging. [PDF]

Front Neurol, 2017
Background Determining the early changes of brain structure that occur from vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (VS/UWS) to a minimally conscious state (MCS) is important for developing our understanding of the processes underlying ...
Tan X, Gao J, Zhou Z, Wei R, Gong T, Wu Y, Liu K, He F, Wang J, Li J, Zhang X, Pan G, Luo B.   +12 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Prevalence of Unfavorable Video-Urodynamic Findings and Clinical Implications in Patients with Minimally Conscious State/Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome: A Retrospective Descriptive Analysis. [PDF]

Biomedicines, 2023
The aim of this retrospective exploratory study was to investigate the prevalence of unfavorable findings during video-urodynamic studies (VUDS) in patients with minimally conscious state (MCS)/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) and whether ...
Leboutte F, Engesser C, Zahiti L, Rentsch CA, Seifert H, Anding R, Hund-Georgiadis M, Möhr S, Walter M.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources