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a perplexing paradox…

June 21, 2016 By Christopher Partyka Leave a Comment

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

two in two days…

April 8, 2014 By Christopher Partyka Leave a Comment

I have recently prepared a lecture on a current, yet still controversial topic for work following exposure to these two interesting cases. Here are the cases & their discussion as well as the slide-show attached… 

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Filed Under: #FOAM, ECHO, Evidence, Interesting, Radiology, Respiratory, Ultrasound Tagged With: alteplase, MAPPET-3, massive PE, MOPETT, PE, PEITHO, pulmonary embolism, submassive PE, thrombolysis, thrombolytics

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