The scans posted are very clear. What do you all have to say about that?
I noticed you all ignored them and decided to try and bash the doctor instead.
See post #6. jbstrick is way ahead of you.
I had a friend with a nephew who had literally half a brain. One entire half of his brain was completely missing. Not there. Just water.
They said he would never live, that he would never walk, that he would never do a lot of things. He did.
See also the scan of a moderately-disabled person posted above.
Sorry, but I trust more the word of a Nobel-prize nominated neurologist.
What's the white spot in the middle? Is it a shunt? Haven't heard anything about Terri having a shunt. Are you sure these are Terri's CT scan or maybe she required a shunt from trauma.
There are too many people willing to starve this woman to death with so many unanswered questions.
They say it isn't uncomfortable or painful. How does anyone know. Has anyone ever done it to them.
Why can't MS just let her family take her and care for her?
Are you purposely ignoring #16
"I noticed you all ignored them and decided to try and bash the doctor instead"
Okay, you're right. Everyone needs to report immediately for a CT scan. If it resembles these, they are to starved to death as quickly as possible.
" I'm certainly not an expert, but I can read it well enough to understand that Terri's brain is in very bad shape.
I wouldn't expect anyone to make a firm diagnosis based on one scan, but on the other hand the scan is pretty clear in the fact that Terri's brain injury is more significant that some want to accept."
Atrophy proves nothing. From the literature, it has been shown that cerebral atrophy on CT does not necessarily correlate with cognitive dysfunction.
National Library of Medicine:
"What was expected to be the most heated discussion during the meeting--that on the role of the CT scan ....with the experts agreeing such a technique could be valuable in ruling out certain treatable causes of dementia but
could not give a definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease or multi-farct dementia."
It has also agreed that when used with elderly patients, the CT scan cannot differentiate between pathological brain atrophy and "normal" brain atrophy.
In addition, Dr. Robert Katzman of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, and Dr. Ernest Gruenberg of Johns Hopkins University,
both argued that there is no direct correlation between cerebral atrophy and cognitive dysfunction.
Dr. Gruenberg noted that autopsied brains of severely demented persons sometimes show little atrophy and vice versa.
Dr. Katzman pointed out that the hallmark of senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type is pathological change in the neurons, not atrophy of the brain."
Archives of Neurology :
" Atrophic changes on CT scans, however, were not necessarily correlated with any intellectual dysfunction, or only weakly so, independent of age."