Morte cerebral

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Morte cerebral o morte encephalic es le perdita de tote function cerebral. Es irreversibile e le morte physic es ineluctabile.[1][2][3][4]

Le morte cerebral non debe esser confundite con coma, ubi remane alcun cerebral activitate, stato vegetative (en), ubi remane alcun functiones autonomic [5] o syndrome de incofframento (en) ubi le patiente es consciente.

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