(MENAFN) A man in France responded to therapy after being in a vegetative state for 15 years.
Doctors treated the 35-year-old, injured in a car accident, with an experimental therapy that involved implanting a nerve stimulator into his chest.
A vegetative state is when a person is awake without signs of awareness; they may open their eyes, wake up and fall asleep at regular intervals.
Patients with different patterns of brain damage may not respond to Vagal nerve stimulation (VNS).
However, it is difficult to know this treatment's efficiency in the general patient population.
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