Only 7% of people who enter into a prolonged vegetative state have good recoveries.
It's very, very rare to be in a vegetative state for a long period of time and wake up.
Her parents rejected the doctors' diagnosis that Terri was in a persistent vegetative state, and insisted she could recover.
Since then, he has been in a vegetative state, connected to a respirator.
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Shelef said that Sharon is not in a coma or vegetative state, and is somewhere between a coma and consciousness.
Patients in a vegetative state are awake, not in a coma, but have no awareness because of severe brain damage.
She said the hospital did a study of 60 patients admitted with a diagnosis of vegetative state and 43% could communicate.
He left Iraq after an American soldier shot his son, who has been left in a vegetative state following several surgeries.
Court-appointed doctors had said she was in a permanent vegetative state and would not recover, but her parents had said she could.
This describes patients who are a shade better off than those in a vegetative state, because they show fluctuating signs of awareness.
India's Supreme Court has rejected a plea to end the life of a woman who has been in a vegetative state since 1973.
After he suffered the massive stroke in 2006, he was declared permanently incapacitated and had been presumed to be in a vegetative state.
At the extreme end of the scale, the consequences of head injury are death, persistent vegetative state or severe physical and mental disablement.
She is unable to talk and had been thought to be in a vegetative state, with no awareness or consciousness of her surroundings.
India's Supreme Court has directed three doctors to examine the medical condition of a woman who has been in a vegetative state since 1973.
Since 1993, a total of 43 patients in a persistent vegetative state, or PVS, have died after a judge ordered that treatment could be withdrawn.
British nursery school teacher Kate Bainbridge went into a near-vegetative state for four months starting in June 1997 after a virus caused severe brain inflammation.
In her petition, Pinki Virani said that Ms Shanbaug had been in a "persistent vegetative state" for 37 years and was "virtually a dead person".
The new law, however, provides for death penalty in cases of rape that leads to death or leaves the victim in a "persistent vegetative state".
"Not unless I was in a chronic vegetative state, " moans Bashline.
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The person may enter a persistent vegetative state or brain death.
When my mother was in her final illness, she shared a hospital room with a woman who had been lying in a vegetative state for years.
Weeks after the accident, the diagnosis became clear: Ryan was in a persistent vegetative state because he had been deprived of oxygen for 15 to 20 minutes.
In her petition journalist Pinki Virani has said that Ms Shanbaug has been in a "persistent vegetative state" for 36 years and is "virtually a dead person".
Gisela was left severely brain-damaged and in a vegetative state.
Claire Watson, appearing for the trust, said it was the unanimous view of clinicians and independent experts that the patient, from Greater Manchester, was in a persistent vegetative state.
Florida's statute-suggested living will, for example, directs life-prolonging treatments to be stopped if there is "no reasonable medical probability" of recovery from a terminal condition or persistent vegetative state.
Insurance companies, for example, prefer a diagnosis of vegetative to one of minimally conscious, Dr Laureys says, because no expensive rehabilitation is required for those in a vegetative state.
The new laws also prescribe the death penalty - which is carried out very rarely in India - in cases of rape that cause death or leave the victim in a vegetative state.
The New York Times Magazine had a great piece last week on scattered case reports that doses of Ambien can at least temporarily awaken patients who are in a vegetative state.
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