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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Persistent vegetative state after severe cerebral hemorrhage treated with amantadine: A retrospective controlled study. [PDF]
Medicine (Baltimore), 2020 Amantadine is currently recommended for use in patients of posttraumatic brain injury with unconsciousness. However, the application of amantadine in consciousness disturbance after cerebral hemorrhage has only been rarely reported.
Gao Y, Zhang Y, Li Z, Ma L, Yang J.
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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.
Kondziella D, Cheung MC, Dutta A.
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EEG Changes during Propofol Anesthesia Induction in Vegetative State Patients Undergoing Spinal Cord Stimulation Implantation Surgery [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2023 Objective: To compare the EEG changes in vegetative state (VS) patients and non-craniotomy, non-vegetative state (NVS) patients during general anesthesia with low-dose propofol and to find whether it affects the arousal rate of VS patients.
Xuewei Qin +8 more
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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 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.
Francesco Dondi +8 more
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Multiple Victims: The Result of Caring Patients in Vegetative State. [PDF]
Iran Red Crescent Med J, 2015 Background: Having a patient in a vegetative state in the family is a complicated and stressful experience. Caring for such patients with complete disability at home is very challenging.
Goudarzi F, Abedi H, Zarea K, Ahmadi F.
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Given the enormous consequences that the diagnosis of vegetative state (VS) vs. minimally conscious state (MCS) may have for the treatment of patients with disorders of consciousness, it is particularly important to empirically legitimate the distinction
Giulia eLiberati +4 more
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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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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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