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NEUROLOGY
Volume 61, Issue 1, Pages 135-137Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000069925.02052.1F
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Seventy patients with ALS using tracheostomy positive pressure ventilation (TPPV) were evaluated for impaired communication. Severely impaired communication is divided into the totally locked-in state (TLS) and the minimal communication state (MCS). TLS occurred in 8 of 70 (11.4%). In the 33 patients on TPPV for more than 5 years, TLS developed in 6 (18.2%) and MCS in 11 (33.1%). Respiratory management for ALS allows long-term survival if mechanical ventilation is used.
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