04, the patient was admitted to the Neurological rehabilitation clinic in Regensburg, Germany with the diagnosis of diminished wakefulness, at the time of a remission phase of an
apallic syndrome.
An Austrian news website said the German F1 legend may suffer
apallic syndrome - or persistent vegetative state.
According to the Mirror, although Schumacher is currently stable, doctors fear that due to Schumacher's severe brain damage, he may suffer from
apallic syndrome, or persistent vegetative state, which happens when a patient with severe brain damage is in a state of partial arousal rather than true awareness.
Guidelines for quality management of
apallic syndrome/vegetative state.
Prognosticheskoe znachenie neurofisiologicheskih pokazatelei pri netravmaticheskom appalicheskom syndrome [Prognostic significance of neurophysiological index at untraumatic
apallic syndrome].
The patient with AIE from near hanging presented
apallic and severely anoxic with a Glasgow coma score of 3.
APALLIC syndrome, also called persistent vegetative state, has no cure.
1984), diencephalic seizures (Bullard, 1987), autonomic dysfunction syndrome (Rossitich & Bullard, 1988), traumatic
apallic syndrome (Hackl et al.
jp) School of Health Sciences, University of the Ryukyus, 207 Uehara, Nishihara, Okinawa, 903-0215 Japan; Tomoko Nagayama, MS, RN, Nurse, Okayama Rehabilitation Center for Traumatic
Apallics.
