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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

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Ms. Schiavo died at age 41 on March 31. Mr. Thogmartin said Ms. Schiavo technically died of "marked dehydration" - not starvation - after her feeding tube was removed, but that the cause of her original brain damage could not be found. As such, he said, he considered the manner of death to be "undetermined."
"This damage was irreversible," said Mr. Thogmartin. "No amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons."
The autopsy also showed that physical abuse or poison did not lead to her collapse in 1990. Ms. Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, had accused their daughter's husband, Michael Schiavo, of abusing her, which he steadfastly denied. Mr. Thogmartin also said there was no evidence she had had an eating disorder before she collapsed.
The medical examiner said Ms. Schiavo was blind in her final days and that she would not have been able to eat or drink had she been fed by mouth, as her parents had requested. The autopsy found no evidence that she suffered a heart attack, or that she was given harmful drugs that may have accelerated her death.
Asked about persistent vegetative state, Stephen Milton, a neuropathology expert who joined Dr. Thogmartin at the news conference, said that term referred to a clinical diagnosis, not a pathological diagnosis. But, he said, "There was nothing in the autopsy that is inconsistent with persistent vegetative state."
Ms. Schiavo's parents sought the autopsy to determine the cause of Ms. Schiavo's collapse on the night of Feb. 25, 1990. She had suffered extensive brain damage when her heart stopped beating.
The question of whether she should have been allowed to die, as her husband said she wanted, or be turned over to the care of her parents, who wanted to keep her alive, went on for seven years, and reached the Vatican, the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court.
Most doctors said the 41-year-old woman was in a persistent vegetative state, but her parents - who took the case to the United States Supreme Court in order to try to spare her life - argued that she was minimally conscious. Her death on the last day of March came 13 days after a feeding tube that was keeping her alive had been removed. Her husband had sought the removal of the tube over the objection of the Schindlers.
At various times, the Schindlers accused Mr. Schiavo of physically abusing his wife, and suggested that poisoning or strangulation may have led to her collapse. Mr. Schiavo has repeatedly denied abusing his wife, and the medical examiner said several times today that there was no evidence of trauma consistent with physical abuse before her collapse.
At one point during the drawn-out dispute, President Bush returned to the White House from a Texas vacation late on a Sunday night solely to sign a law that allowed Ms. Schiavo's parents to seek a federal court review of the facts of the case. He praised Congress for "voting to give Terry Schiavo's parents another opportunity to save their daughter's life."
Ms. Schiavo's husband and parents, once close, battled over her fate since 1998, when Mr. Schiavo asked a state court's permission to remove life support.
After her collapse in 1990, she had been able to breathe on her own and had periods of wakefulness, but doctors testified in court that she was in a "persistent vegetative state" and incapable of thought or emotion.
Courts also found credible Mr. Schiavo's testimony that his wife, who left no written directive, had said on several occasions that she would not want life-prolonging measures to be used for her.

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