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Alteplase-Induced Hemi-Orolingual Angioedema
09/22/2024

Robert Kim, MD1 • Zeeshan Khan, MD2 • Maria Ciminelli, MD3

Robert Kim, MD1 • Zeeshan Khan, MD2 •...
A 63-year-old man with a medical history significant for Bell palsy, non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, and hepatitis C virus...
09/22/2024
What's The Take Home?
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What's The Take Home?
A 72-Year-Old Man With Recently Diagnosed Lung Cancer
05/14/2024

Ronald N. Rubin, MD1,2 —Series Editor

Ronald N. Rubin, MD1,2 —Series E...
A 72-year-old man presented to the hospital for an apparent thrombotic stroke. Regarding the present illness, the patient’s history began about 3 months prior, when a friend noticed that the patient’s left...
05/14/2024
What's The Take Home?
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What's The Take Home?
A 75-Year-Old Man With Memory Loss
03/28/2024

Ronald N. Rubin, MD1,2 —Series Editor

Ronald N. Rubin, MD1,2 —Series E...
The wife of a 75-year-old previously healthy man calls her internist to report her husband’s acute episode of “confusion.”
03/28/2024
What's the take home?
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What's the take home?
A 69-Year-Old Man Who Has Sustained an Acute, Observed Stroke
01/05/2023
A 69-year-old previously healthy man had experienced the acute onset of weakness in his right hand and arm after driving home from playing a round of golf. The weakness progressed quickly from paresis and...
01/05/2023
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Stroke
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Isolated Unilateral Oculomotor Nerve Paresis: An Uncommon Presentation of Midbrain Stroke
03/05/2021
Isolated unilateral oculomotor nerve paresis is a rare presentation of midbrain cerebrovascular accident. This report describes a case of isolated unilateral oculomotor nerve paresis resulting from a tiny...
03/05/2021
Review Article
Review Article
Exertional Heat Illness: A Clinical Overview
04/30/2020
The human body has an array of physiologic mechanisms available to withstand the effects of environmental heat stress and humidity. Despite this, athletes routinely succumb to the effects of exertional heat...
04/30/2020
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Hand Knob Stroke
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Getting a Grip on Hand Knob Stroke
02/05/2020
A 65-year-old man presented to the emergency department for the evaluation of right upper-extremity paresthesias of 1 week’s duration. He also reported clumsiness of the right hand that had worsened over...
02/05/2020
Review Article
Review Article
When You Can’t Identify the Cause of a Stroke: Advanced and Specialized Tests
11/28/2019

Gregory W. Rutecki, MD

Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
The evaluation of strokes includes MRI, echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, Holter monitoring, and hematologic studies.
11/28/2019
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Early Stroke
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Multigenerational Women With Migraine and Early Stroke
10/05/2018
A 15-year-old girl with a history of chronic migraine presented to the clinic with what she called the worst headache of her life.
10/05/2018
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Neonatal Stroke Induced by Factor V Leiden Mutation
12/29/2015

Lourdes Cohen, MD, and Xin Ye, MD

Flushing Hospital Medical Center, Flushing, New York

Lourdes Cohen, MD, and Xin Ye, MD Fl...
A meconium-stained, nonvigorous girl was born at 41 weeks of gestation via normal, spontaneous vaginal delivery to a 30-year-old, gravida 1, para 1 mother.
12/29/2015