Zolpidem arouses patients in vegetative state after brain injury: Quantitative evaluation and indications

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 347, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 178-182

  Du, Bo ^a   Shan, Aijun ^a   Zhang, Yujuan ^a   Zhong, Xianliang ^a   Chen, Dong ^a   Cai, Kunhao ^a  

^a JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brain function; Brain injury; Neurotransmitter; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M; ZOLPIDEM;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTRECOUP CONTUSION; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CEREBRAL STATE INDEX; CONTRECOUP INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPACE OCCUPYING BRAIN COMPRESSION INJURY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CYSTEINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PYRIDINES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84896711633     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: 15382990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e318287c79c     Document Type: Article

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