22 year old US student freed by North Korea cannot speak or move – U.S Doctors

The doctors monitoring released student from North Korea Otto Warmbier say he has neither spoken nor moved on his own since he was released to the U.S on Tuesday, a condition the Doctors describe as “unresponsive wakefulness”. In a news conference Thursday, the doctors at University of Cincinnati Medical Center said the 22-year-old has suffered... Read More

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In a news conference Thursday, the doctors at University of Cincinnati Medical Center said the 22-year-old has suffered an extensive loss of brain tissue in all regions of the brain. “Unresponsive wakefulness” also known as persistent vegetative state, includes no voluntary movement or awareness of surroundings.

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Dr. Daniel Kanter, a professor of neurology and director of the Neurocritical Care Program said Warmbier opens his eyes and blinks spontaneously but showed no signs of understanding language or responding to verbal commands.

Warmbier’s doctors said they do not have any information regarding the kind of medical care he received in North Korea but that they found no evidence that he contracted botulism. “We have no certifiable knowledge of the cause or circumstances of his neurological injuries, this pattern of brain injury is usually seen as a result of cardiopulmonary arrest where the blood supply to (the) brain is inadequate for a period of time, resulting in the death of brain tissue”, Kanter said.

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Warmbier’s parents said they had learned about their son’s condition, which North Korea told them was a coma last week. Father of the boy, Fred Warmbier said he refused to accept North Korea’s explanation that his son fell into a coma after contracting botulism and taking a sleeping pill in March 2016.

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