Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity Rate in Vegetative or Minimally Conscious State after Acquired Brain Injury Evaluated by Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity Assessment Measure
| Autor: | Stefania Rogano, Loris Pignolo, Maria Ursino, Antonio Cerasa, Lucia Francesca Lucca, Elio Leto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male 030506 rehabilitation Sympathetic Nervous System medicine.medical_treatment 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity Acquired brain injury Neurorehabilitation Persistent vegetative state Aged Retrospective Studies Rehabilitation business.industry Persistent Vegetative State Minimally conscious state Middle Aged medicine.disease Anesthesia Brain Injuries Etiology Wakefulness Female Neurology (clinical) 0305 other medical science business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Journal of neurotrauma. 36(16) |
| ISSN: | 1557-9042 |
| Popis: | The rate of paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity (PSH) was retrospectively assessed using the Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity-Assessment Measure (PSH-AM) scale in patients with disorders of consciousness attributed to traumatic and non-traumatic acquired brain injury during the rehabilitation phase. These results were compared with previous studies carried out in the same clinical scenario, in order to verify the prevalence of PSH signs from 1998 to 2014. The entire sample consisted of 140 patients in vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome or minimally conscious state admitted to a neurorehabilitation subacute unit from June 2010 to December 2014. PSH-AM revealed the presence of PSH in 16% of traumatic and 12% of non-traumatic younger patients. In the non-traumatic group, the rate was higher in patients with anoxia-hypoxia (37.5%) etiology than those with vascular brain injury (6.7%). A comparison with previous studies revealed a reduction in the number of PSH cases in traumatic patients. This study provides evidence that PSH-AM can be used prospectively to detect the rate of PSH and stratify severity of signs. Further longitudinal analysis is warranted to confirm the prevalence of PSH signs in non-traumatic brain injured patients. |
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