Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2002 The strange and harrowing sight of a person being awake but unaware with no evidence of a working mind - the characteristics of the vegetative state - provokes intense debate and raises profound questions for health professionals, ethicists, philosophers and lawyers.
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The Role of [18F]FDG PET Imaging for the Assessment of Vegetative State or Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome: A Systematic Review [PDF]
DiagnosticsBackground: Different evidence on the ability of [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to assess patients in the vegetative state (VS) or unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) has been reported.
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Resting-state networks distinguish locked-in from vegetative state patients [PDF]
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2016 Purpose: Locked-in syndrome and vegetative state are distinct outcomes from coma. Despite their differences, they are clinically difficult to distinguish at the early stage and current diagnostic tools remain insufficient.
Daniel Roquet +8 more
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Educational challenges of family caregivers of vegetative state patients for home care preparedness: A qualitative content analysis. [PDF]
J Educ Health Promot, 2022 Keykha A +4 more
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Partial recovery of vegetative state after a massive ischaemic stroke in a child with sickle cell anaemia. [PDF]
BMJ Case Rep, 2020 Machado C +2 more
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Outcomes of Bone Marrow-Derived Mononuclear Cell Transplantation for Patients in Persistent Vegetative State After Drowning: Report of Five Cases. [PDF]
Front Pediatr, 2020 Liem NT +7 more
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Altered functional connectivity and regional brain activity in a triple-network model in minimally conscious state and vegetative-state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome patients: A resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study. [PDF]
Front Behav Neurosci, 2022 Wang Y, Chen S, Xia X, Peng Y, Wu B.
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Persistent vegetative state after severe cerebral hemorrhage treated with amantadine: A retrospective controlled study. [PDF]
Medicine (Baltimore), 2020 Gao Y, Zhang Y, Li Z, Ma L, Yang J.
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Noncanonical Adult Human Neurogenesis and Axonal Growth as Possible Structural Basis of Recovery From Traumatic Vegetative State. [PDF]
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Persistent vegetative state [PDF]
Neurology, 2007 A young man was resuscitated from a deep comatose state following unobserved cardiac arrest. Head CT done a few hours later revealed bilateral basal ganglia hypodensities, suggestive of hypoxic-ischemic …
Modi, Manish, Singla, Veenu
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