To tPA or Not to tPA: Two Medical-Legal Misadventures of Diagnosing a Cerebrovascular Accident as a Stroke Mimic

We present two recent successfully litigated malpractice cases in which patients with cerebrovascular accidents were misdiagnosed as stroke mimics. The first was diagnosed as a hemiplegic migraine, which occurs in only 0.01% of the population. The second was diagnosed as a conversion disorder, which...

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Autores principales: Moore, Malia J., Stuart, Jonathan, Humphreys, Alexandra, Pfaff, James A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019
Materias:
Medical Legal Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6682222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31404351
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.4.42186

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