One-Year Demographical and Clinical Indices of Patients with Chronic Disorders of Consciousness.

This work aims to evaluate the prognostic value of the demographical and clinical data on long-term outcomes (up to 12 months) in patients with severe acquired brain injury with vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (VS/UWS/UWS) or a minimally conscious state (MCS). Patients ( = 211) with VS/UWS/UWS ( = 123) and MCS ( = 88) were admitted to the Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology after anoxic brain injury ( = 53), vascular lesions ( = 59), traumatic brain injury ( = 93), and other causes ( = 6). At the beginning of the 12-month study, younger age and a higher score by the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) predicted a survival.