UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of NeurologyDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2011-03-01Keywords
BrainCerebral Angiography
Cerebral Arterial Diseases
Cerebral Infarction
Cerebrovascular Circulation
Coma
Dysarthria
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Angiography
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Thalamus
Nervous System Diseases
Neurology
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A 52-year-old man was noted to display “unusual behavior” with transient agitation and blurry vision after otherwise uneventful diagnostic cardiac catheterization. Several hours after same-day discharge from the hospital, he suddenly became comatose, requiring intubation and admission to the intensive care unit. Two days later, he regained consciousness and was noted to have vertical gaze palsy and dysarthria without other neurologic deficits. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated bilateral acute medial thalamic ischemic strokes. Magnetic resonance angiography did not display extracranial or intracranial arterial stenosis (not shown). At 3 months' follow-up, he had only mild residual dysarthria.Source
Arch Neurol. 2011 Mar;68(3):386-7. doi: 10.1001/archneurol.2010.377. Link to article on publisher's site.DOI
10.1001/archneurol.2010.377Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/37765PubMed ID
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10.1001/archneurol.2010.377