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  2. Brainstem death - Wikipedia

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    Brainstem death is a clinical syndrome defined by the absence of reflexes with pathways through the brainstem – the "stalk" of the brain, which connects the spinal cord to the mid-brain, cerebellum and cerebral hemispheres – in a deeply comatose, ventilator-dependent patient.

  3. Brain death - Wikipedia

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    Brain death; Other names: Brain stem death: A brain-dead patient. The patient can also be seen here executing the Lazarus sign. Specialty: Neurology, neurosurgery, palliative care, critical care medicine: Complications: Total organ failure: Causes: Cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction, stroke, blood clot: Diagnostic method: Stimulation testing ...

  4. Brainstem - Wikipedia

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    In the human brain the brainstem is composed of the midbrain, the pons, and the medulla oblongata. [1] The midbrain is continuous with the thalamus of the diencephalon through the tentorial notch, and sometimes the diencephalon is included in the brainstem. [2] The brainstem is very small, making up around only 2.6 percent of the brain's total ...

  5. Diffuse midline glioma - Wikipedia

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    Diffuse midline glioma, H3 K27-altered (DMG) is a fatal tumour that arises in midline structures of the brain, most commonly the brainstem, thalamus and spinal cord.When located in the pons it is also known as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG).

  6. Stages of death - Wikipedia

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    Per the United Kingdom Medical Royal Colleges, a diagnosis of brain death is a two-fold process including 1) identifying the cause of irreversible brain damage and excluding reversible causes of brain damage and 2) conducting a series of clinical and laboratory tests to assess brain stem function. [7] [8]

  7. Diffuse axonal injury - Wikipedia

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    Immunoreactive axonal profiles are observed as either granular (B, G, H) or more elongated, fusiform (F) swellings in the corpus callosum and the brain stem (H) at 24h post traumatic brain injury. Example of APP immunoreactive neurons (arrow heads) observed in the cortex underneath the impact site (E, G). No APP staining was observed in healthy ...

  8. Intracranial hemorrhage - Wikipedia

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    Same symptoms as ischemic stroke, but unconsciousness, headache, nausea, stiff neck, and seizures are more often in brain hemorrhages than ischemic strokes: Complications: Coma, persistent vegetative state, cardiac arrest (when bleeding is in the brain stem or is severe), death: Types

  9. Disorder of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Brain death is one of the deciding factors when pronouncing a trauma patient as dead. Determining function and presence of necrosis after trauma to the whole brain or brain-stem may be used to determine brain death, and is used in many states in the US. [19] [20]