A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study on hemodynamic changes of patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness responding to different auditory stimuli

Table 1 Clinical features of patients with pDoC

	Diagnosis	Gender	Age (years)	Duration of DoC (months)	Etiology	CRS-R
Patient 1	VS	M	57	2.8	Stroke	6
Patient 2	VS	M	55	3.4	TBI	6
Patient 3	VS	M	60	2.3	Anoxic	6
Patient 4	VS	M	64	2.2	Stroke	5
Patient 5	VS	M	47	2.8	Stroke	4
Patient 6	VS	M	41	19.9	Stroke	5
Patient 7	VS	M	60	2.8	Anoxic	5
Patient 8	VS	M	31	25.2	Anoxic	7
Patient 9	VS	F	45	15.5	Anoxic	7
Patient 10	MCS	M	65	4.0	TBI	16
Patient 11	MCS	M	48	1.7	Stroke	14
Patient 12	VS	F	23	7.6	TBI	7
Patient 13	MCS	F	45	6.4	TBI	14
Patient 14	VS	M	44	3.1	TBI	6
Patient 15	VS	M	59	8.2	Stroke	7
Patient 16	VS	F	50	2.3	Stroke	7
Patient 17	VS	M	46	4.1	TBI	5
Patient 18	MCS	M	21	14.2	Anoxic	11

VS, vegetative state; MCS, minimally conscious state; CRS-R, coma recovery scale-revised; TBI, traumatic brain injury

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