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Vegetative state

IMAJ | volume

Journal 11, November 2006
pages: 819-823

Vegetative State

    Summary

     This review briefly describes the clinical nature of the vegetative state, the commonly used clinical tests, the pathophysiology of the brain damage that is at the basis of the clinical picture, the customary pharmacological treatment of VS[1], the medical complications that are characteristic of this group of patients and the life expectancy of patients in a vegetative state.


    [1] VS = vegetative state

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