Sentences with phrase «remained in the vegetative state»

The researchers found that seventeen (43 \ %) had been misdiagnosed by their referring physicians as being in PVS; thirteen (33 \ %) slowly emerged from the vegetative condition during rehabilitation therapy; and only ten (25 \ %) remained in the vegetative state.

At the time of admission for functional MRI scanning (5 years after the ictus), the patient was assumed to remain in a vegetative state, although extensive behavioral testing after the functional MRI revealed reproducible, but inconsistent, responses indicative of a minimally conscious state.

If repeated examinations yield no evidence of a sustained, reproducible, purposeful, or voluntary behavioral response to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimuli, a diagnosis of a vegetative state — or «wakefulness without awareness» — is made.1 - 5 Some patients remain in a vegetative state permanently.

People who survive may be left with severe impairments or remain in a vegetative state.

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Some comas, such as those induced by low blood sugar (aka a diabetic coma), can be reversed relatively quickly with the proper remedies, but others can result in the patient remaining in a permanent vegetative state or in death.