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- Title
Long-Term Outcomes among Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness.
- Authors
Liu, Yan; Kang, Xiao-Gang; Gao, Qiong; Liu, Yu; Song, Chang-Geng; Shi, Xiao-Jing; Wu, Jia-Ning; Jiang, Wen
- Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the long-term survival and functional outcomes of patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness (pDoC) 1–8 years after brain injuries. Methods: Retrospective study to assess the long-term survival and functional outcomes of patients with pDoC was conducted. We performed Cox regression and multivariate logistic regression to calculate hazard ratios (HRs) for the outcome of survival and to identify risk factors of the functional outcome. Results: We recruited 154 patients with pDoC. The duration of follow-up from disease onset was 1–8 years. The median age was 46 years (IQR, 32–59), and 65.6% (n = 101) of them were men. During the follow-up period, one hundred and ten patients (71.4%) survived; among them, 52 patients had a good outcome. From the overall survival curve, the 1-, 3-, and 8-year survival rates of patients were about 80.5%, 72.0%, and 69.7%, respectively. Cox regression analysis revealed a significant association between the lower APACHE II score (p = 0.005) (cut-off score ≥ 18) and the presence of sleep spindles (p = 0.001) with survival. Logistic regression analysis demonstrated a higher CRS-R score (cut-off score ≥ 7), and presence of sleep spindles were related to a favorable outcome among patients with pDoC. Conclusions: Sleep spindles are correlated with both long-term survival and long-term functional outcome in pDoC patients.
- Subjects
CONSCIOUSNESS disorders; SLEEP spindles; TREATMENT effectiveness; LOGISTIC regression analysis; REGRESSION analysis
- Publication
Brain Sciences (2076-3425), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 2, p194
- ISSN
2076-3425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/brainsci13020194