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What Causes Unconsciousness After Skull Bone Surgery?

my wife had a stroke on5th may2010.was operated and skull bone of the right hemisphere removed.she has continued to be unconscious since then.how long will she continue as such?
Wed, 8 Oct 2014
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I am afraid your wife has suffered a very big stroke, because it's only then that there is the need to remove the bone in order to lower the pressure caused by the swelling. It's the stroke which causes her condition not the surgery itself, without it she probably wouldn't have survived. Unfortunately it seems that 4 years have passed and if your wife is still unresponsive I am afraid that there is little chance of her neurological condition improving. The damage has been very extensive and whatever compensation from the unaffected areas there could have been hoped for at first, it would have taken place during the first year.
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What Causes Unconsciousness After Skull Bone Surgery?

I am afraid your wife has suffered a very big stroke, because it s only then that there is the need to remove the bone in order to lower the pressure caused by the swelling. It s the stroke which causes her condition not the surgery itself, without it she probably wouldn t have survived. Unfortunately it seems that 4 years have passed and if your wife is still unresponsive I am afraid that there is little chance of her neurological condition improving. The damage has been very extensive and whatever compensation from the unaffected areas there could have been hoped for at first, it would have taken place during the first year.