[Agonal coma in stroke].

The author describes the clinical symptomatology of coma dépassé in 19 patients with severe forms of brain strokes. Artificial pulmonary ventilation was performed until cardic arrest. The longest time of dissociated life of the organism in strokes was 5 days. Spinal automatisms were seen in 9 cases. Some possibilities of unreversible disintegration of separate structures in the CNS in different periods of coma dépassé (and in some cases prior to its development) are discussed.