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Coma: A coma is a profound or deep state of unconsciousness. The affected individual is alive but is not able to react or respond to life around ... more about Coma.
Coma: Prolonged unconsciousness. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Coma is available below.
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Prognosis for Coma: The outcome for coma and vegetative state depends on the cause and on the location, severity, and extent of neurological damage: outcomes range from recovery to death. People may emerge from a coma with a combination of physical, intellectual, and psychological difficulties that need special attention. Recovery usually occurs gradually, with patients acquiring more and more ability to respond. Some patients never progress beyond very basic responses, but many recover full awareness. Patients recovering from coma require close medical supervision. A coma rarely lasts more than 2 to 4 weeks. Some patients may regain a degree of awareness after vegetative state. Others may remain in a vegetative state for years or even decades. The most common cause of death for a person in a vegetative state is infection such as pneumonia. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Coma Information Page: NINDS)
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A coma is a profound or deep state of unconsciousness. The affected individual is alive but is not able to react or respond to life around him/her. Coma may occur as an expected progression or complication of an underlying illness, or as a result of an event such as head trauma. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Coma Information Page: NINDS)
Profound state of unconsciousness associated with depressed cerebral activity from which the individual cannot be aroused; coma generally occurs when there is dysfunction or injury involving both cerebral hemispheres or the brain stem. - (Source - Diseases Database)
A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury - (Source - WordNet 2.1)
Coma is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Coma, or a subtype of Coma,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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