Long-Term Outcomes of Patients with Stroke Predicted by Clinicians to have no Chance of Meaningful Recovery: A Japanese Cohort Study.

Satoshi EgawaJeremy AderQi ShenShun NakagawaYoshihisa FujimotoShuichi FujiiKenta MasudaAkira ShirotaMasafumi OtaYuji YoshinoHitomi AmaiSatoru MiyaoHidetoshi NakamotoYasuhiro KurodaKevin DoyleLauren GroboisAthina VrosgouJerina C CarmonaAngela VelazquezShivani GhoshalDavid RohSachin AgarwalSoojin ParkJan Claassen

Published in: Neurocritical care (2022)

In the absence of WLST, almost half of the patients predicted shortly after the injury to have no chance of meaningful recovery were dead 6 months after the injury. A small minority of patients had good functional recovery, highlighting the need for more accurate neurological prognostication.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
patient reported outcomes
brain injury