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Persistent vegetative state: an overview
Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2021 Background Disorder of consciousness diagnosis, especially when is classified as persistent vegetative state (without misestimating the other diagnosis classifications), in the intensive care is an important diagnosis to evaluate and treat.
Gabriel Alexander Quiñones-Ossa +4 more
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The persistent vegetative state – General considerations [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Neurology, 2011 The persistent vegetative state is a clinical condition of complete unawareness of the self and the environment accompanied by sleep-wake cycles with either complete or partial preservation of hypothalamic and brainstem autonomic functions.
Eva Georghita +4 more
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The Vegetative State: A Review of Etiology and Prognostic Factors
McGill Journal of Medicine, 2020 This paper reviews the research investigating the vegetative state (VS) in terms of its aetiology and prognostic factors that may be indicative of the outcome for patients in the VS.
Rachel Elizabeth Davison
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Changes of Spasticity across Time in Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness: A Retrospective Study
Brain Sciences, 2022 Objectives: In this retrospective study, we investigated how spasticity developed in patients diagnosed with a prolonged DOC over an almost two-year observation period (21 months), and how it related to the patients’ age, gender, time since injury ...
Benjamin Winters +5 more
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BMJ, 2010 #### Summary points The vegetative state may develop suddenly (as a consequence of traumatic or non-traumatic brain injury, such as hypoxia or anoxia; infection; or haemorrhage) or gradually (in the course of a neurodegenerative disorder, such as Alzheimer’s disease).
Monti, Martin M +2 more
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BMC Neurology, 2018 Background Behavioral assessment has been acted as the gold standard for the diagnosis of disorders of consciousness (DOC) patients. The item “Functional Object Use” in the motor function sub-scale in the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) is a key item
Yuxiao Sun +10 more
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Brain Sciences, 2023 (1) Background: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood biomarkers are emerging tools used to obtain information on secondary brain damage and to improve diagnostic and prognostic accuracy for patients with prolonged post-traumatic disorders of consciousness
Sergio Bagnato, Cristina Boccagni
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Persistent vegetative state [PDF]
The Lancet, 1992 Persistent vegetative state (PVS) was first described in 1972 and refers to a clinical condition in which there is a lack of self-awareness (complete unawareness of the self) despite the patient having sleep–wake cycles, other basic reflexes (such as blinking or withdrawing the hand when it is squeezed hard), being capable of spontaneous breathing, and
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Clinical Research: Auditory Stimulation in the Disorders of Consciousness
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019 Due to the complex situation of disorder of consciousness (DOC) patients, the assessment of conscious states of these patients has become a huge challenge for a long time (Laureys et al., 2010).
Jiajie Zhu +8 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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