Brain perfusion and VEP reactivity in occipital and parietal areas are associated to recovery from hypoxic vegetative state

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 150-158

  Hildebrandt, Helmut ^a,b   Happe, Svenja ^a   Deutschmann, Angelika ^b   Basar Eroglu, Canan ^c   Eling, Paul ^d   Brunhöber, Jens ^a  

^a KLINIKUM BREMEN OST   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Hypoxia; P300; Precuneus; SPECT; Vegetative state; VEP; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG UPTAKE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; VISUAL CORTEX; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VISION, LOW;

EID: 34547655452     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2007.04.035     Document Type: Article

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