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What are the different kinds of comas?
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Coma: The general broad categories of coma include (but not limited to): 1. structural: such as tumor, stroke, bleeding...etc 2. Metabolic/toxic: such as inborn errors of metabolism in children, hepatic encephalopathy, and drug/toxin ingestion/overdose 3. infectious: due to viral encephalitis, bacterial meningitis.. etc
Answered 5/20/2015
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