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Aetiology

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The aetiologies of coma are varied, and have been divided here into:

  • drug overdose
  • metabolic causes
  • acute central nervous system infection
  • acute systemic infection
  • cerebral vascular causes
  • cerebral pressure causes
  • a variety of other causes, of which the principal is head injury

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