Back حالة الحد الأدنى من الوعي Arabic وضعیت حداقل هوشیاری Persian Minimaalisen tietoisuuden tila Finnish État de conscience minimal French Stato minimamente cosciente Italian Stan minimalnej świadomości Polish Апаллический синдром Russian Минимално свесно стање Serbian 最小意識狀態 Chinese
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| Brain scans of various disorders of consciousness, including minimally conscious state |
A minimally conscious state or MCS is a disorder of consciousness distinct from persistent vegetative state and locked-in syndrome. Unlike persistent vegetative state, patients with MCS have partial preservation of conscious awareness.[1] MCS is a relatively new category of disorders of consciousness. The natural history and longer term outcome of MCS have not yet been thoroughly studied. The prevalence of MCS was estimated to be 9 times of PVS cases (adult and pediatric), or between 112,000 and 280,000 in the US by year 2000.[2]
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