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  2. Stroke recovery - Wikipedia

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    He found that by four weeks, if there is some recovery of hand function, there is a 70% chance of making a full or good recovery. He reported that most recovery happens in the first three months, and only minor recovery occurs after six months. [7] More recent research has demonstrated that significant improvement can be made years after the ...

  3. List of association footballers who died after on-field ...

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    This is a list of association footballers who died due to football-related incidents.. The primary causes of on-field deaths have evolved over time. Improvements in infection control and emergency surgery since the early days of organised soccer have mostly eliminated the fatal complications that were once common after routine sporting injuries.

  4. He was given hours to live after stroke. 17 years later ...

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    Stroke is the 5th-leading cause of death in the U.S. and a leading cause of severe disability. On average, a person dies from stroke every 4 minutes.

  5. List of people who awoke from a coma - Wikipedia

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    Police officer who went into a coma after being shot in the forehead. Unlike most patients who come out of a coma after years, after two days of talking, he became unresponsive again. Jan Grzebski [citation needed] 1942–2008 1988 19 years 2007 Polish: Railroad worker. Donald Herbert: 1961-2006 29 December 1995 >9 years 30 April 2005 American ...

  6. Brain ischemia - Wikipedia

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    Brain ischemia has been linked to a variety of diseases or abnormalities. Individuals with sickle cell anemia, compressed blood vessels, ventricular tachycardia, plaque buildup in the arteries, blood clots, extremely low blood pressure as a result of heart attack, and congenital heart defects have a higher predisposition to brain ischemia in comparison to the average population.

  7. Clinical death - Wikipedia

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    Brain failure after clinical death is now known to be due to a complex series of processes called reperfusion injury that occur after blood circulation has been restored, especially processes that interfere with blood circulation during the recovery period. [11] Control of these processes is the subject of ongoing research.

  8. Sharon Stone Was 'Destitute with a 1% Chance of ... - AOL

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    Sharon Stone is sharing how she overcame her 2001 near-fatal stroke and brain hemorrhage, which left her with a “1% chance of survival.” “I walked out of that hospital, 18% of my body mass ...

  9. Autotransfusion - Wikipedia

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    Autotransfusion is a process wherein a person receives their own blood for a transfusion, instead of banked allogenic (separate-donor) blood.There are two main kinds of autotransfusion: Blood can be autologously "pre-donated" (termed so despite "donation" not typically referring to giving to one's self) before a surgery, or alternatively, it can be collected during and after the surgery using ...