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SynthesisFrontiers in neuroscience2024

Meta-analysis of the diagnostic value of functional magnetic resonance imaging for distinguishing unresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state and minimally conscious state.

Helin Zheng, Lu Tian, Jinhua Cai

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Synthesis in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 authors.

Helin ZhengDepartment of Radiology, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders. Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Chongqing, China.
Lu TianDepartment of Radiology, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders. Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Chongqing, China.
Jinhua CaiDepartment of Radiology, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders. Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Chongqing, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state (UWS/ Methods: We conducted a comprehensive search (from the database creation date to November. 2023) for relevant English articles on fMRI for the differential diagnosis of UWS/ Results: Ten studies were included in the meta-analysis. The pooled sensitivity and specificity were 0.71 (95% CI 0.62-0.79) and 0.71 (95% CI 0.54-0.84), respectively. The fMRI for the differential diagnosis of UWS/ Conclusion: Functional magnetic resonance imaging has a good performance in the differential diagnosis of UWS/

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differential diagnosisfuctional magenetic resonance imagingmeta-analysisminimally conscious stateunresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state

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PMID39315080
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