MRI's are not normally used for brain pics. The CT scan is.
She has MRI pics on file, but they inserted a stimulator in California. It is still there.It prevents using a MRI machine, because the field id too strong.But It did not matter, it was not necessary as the have recent CTs and other tests.
PVS is more about ablility, and not what the brain looks like anyway.
Well, you seem to disagree with the American Acadamy of Neurology. I imagine when they find out, they will be quite distressed.
Can I pass along to them your medical credentials, for your new statue in their lobby?
PVS is frequently misdiagnosed.
THE PERMANENT VEGETATIVE STATE; ETHICAL CRUX, MEDICAL FICTION?
http://www.thalidomide.ca/gwolbring/pvsilm.htm
Also, Terri has never had an MRI. If you'd care to try to prove she has, this would be a good time for it.
Dr. Peter Morin...is a researcher specializing in degenerative brain diseases, and has both an M.D. and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Boston University.
In the course of my conversation with Dr. Morin, he made reference to the standard use of MRI and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans to diagnose the extent of brain injuries. He seemed to assume that these had been done for Terri. I stopped him and told him that these tests have never been done for her; that Michael had refused them.
There was a moment of dead silence.
“That’s criminal,” he said, and then asked, in a tone of utter incredulity: “How can he continue as guardian? People are deliberating over this woman’s life and death and there’s been no MRI or PET?” He drew a reasonable conclusion: “These people [Michael Schiavo, George Felos, and Judge Greer] don’t want the information.”
Dr. Morin explained that he would feel obligated to obtain the information in these tests before making a diagnosis with life and death consequences. I told him that CT (Computer-Aided Tomography) scans had been done, and were partly the basis for the finding of PVS. The doctor retorted, “Spare no expense, eh?” I asked him to explain the comment; he said that a CT scan is a much less expensive test than an MRI, but it “only gives you a tenth of the information an MRI does.” He added, “A CT scan is useful only in pretty severe cases, such as trauma, and also during the few days after an anoxic (lack of oxygen) brain injury. It’s useful in an emergency-room setting. But if the question is ischemic injury [brain damage caused by lack of blood/oxygen to part of the brain] you want an MRI and PET. For subsequent evaluation of brain injury, the CT is pretty useless unless there has been a massive stroke.”
Other neurologists have concurred with Dr. Morin’s opinion. Dr. Thomas Zabiega, who trained at the University of Chicago, said, “Any neurologist who is objective would say ‘Yes’” to the question, “Should Terri be given an MRI?”