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a perplexing paradox…

June 21, 2016 by Christopher Partyka 2 Comments

The case.

a 70 year old female is bought to your ED at 10pm via ambulance with a dense right-sided hemiparesis following a witnessed collapse at home only 30 minutes earlier. [Read more…]

Filed Under: #FOAM, Interesting, Neurology, Radiology, Respiratory Tagged With: ischaemic stroke, massive PE, massive pulmonary embolism, MCA stroke, paradoxical embolism, patent foramen ovale, PFO, pulmonary embolism, thrombolysis

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