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The longest coma was registered with an American Eduard O’Bar, born in 1953. At the age of 16 she fell I’ve spent 42 years in a diabetic coma, died in 2012, and never regained consciousness.
According to doctors, if a person spends in a coma for several years, his chances to return to consciousness, to this world tend to zero. However sometimes, as it turned out, there are exceptions. So, French doctors recently managed to bring one of these people back to life.
Employees of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences in Lyon report on a man who had an accident at the age of 20 and received serious head injury. The last 15 years he spent in coma. By law, every adult Frenchman has the right to decide how doctors to deal with him in this case. However, our hero in his time did not do this, and native men after such a tragedy wished to leave the unfortunate connected to the device artificial life support. Apparently, not in vain, because people of science, to their own surprise, managed to help the patient. They did this through electrical stimulation of the tenth a pair of cranial nerves, also known as the vagus nerve.
Angela Serigu – one of the authors of the operation – says that in a special electrostimulator was installed in the patient’s abdominal cavity, connected to the end of the vagus nerve. It paid off, and the Frenchman suddenly came out of a coma. He began to respond to others and their actions, began to move his neck and perform other simple actions. It turned out that the human brain is capable of form new connections, that is, literally “repair yourself” even after such a serious injury. Doctors predict that 35-year-old patient, whose name has not been disclosed, there is every chance return to a full life.
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