in a vegetative state for 5 years,
unresponsive doctors
One patient awakens from vegetative state and minimally conscious after five years and understands and responds to six hours the orders of doctors. It happened Institute Hospital San Camillo Venice and tracking is now a study, published in the journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair ", the official organ of the World Federation of Neurorehabilitation. According to specialists is a unique case study that allowed for the first time in the world awakening from vegetative states by magnetic stimulation transcranial (TMS).
stimulation was performed on a patient hospitalized at the San Camillo and the study was carried out in collaboration with the Departments of Neurosciences of the University of Padua and Verona. The patient, who has 70 years, five years before had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. A month later, he recovered the minimum level of consciousness could open his eyes spontaneously or in response to tactile stimuli, could turn his eyes toward a sound or follow a moving object.
stimulation was performed on a patient hospitalized at the San Camillo and the study was carried out in collaboration with the Departments of Neurosciences of the University of Padua and Verona. The patient, who has 70 years, five years before had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. A month later, he recovered the minimum level of consciousness could open his eyes spontaneously or in response to tactile stimuli, could turn his eyes toward a sound or follow a moving object.
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