persistent vegetative state
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disorder of consciousness caused by severe brain damage
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- Neurology , critical care medicine
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Research
4,026 papers- Detecting awareness in the vegetative state.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2006
- Persistent vegetative state.Lancet (London, England) · 1997
- Prevalence of persistent vegetative state compared to recovery, disability, and death in subjects with severe traumatic brain injury: A meta-analysis.International journal of clinical practice · 2021
- Persistent vegetative state.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 1995
- Vegetative state.The Israel Medical Association journal : IMAJ · 2006
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A vegetative state (VS) or post-coma unresponsiveness (PCU) is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than true awareness. After four weeks in a vegetative state, the patient is classified as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). This diagnosis is classified as a permanent vegetative state some months (three in the US and six in the UK) after a non-traumatic brain injury or one year after a traumatic injury. The term unresponsive wakefulness syndrome may be used alternatively, as "vegetative state" has some negative connotations among the public. It is occasionally also called Apallic syndrome or Apallisches syndrome, borrowings from German, primarily in European or older sources.
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