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Motor Vehicle Accident Due to Homonymous Hemianopia: An Unusual Presentation of Vertebrobasilar Stroke

Acute ischemic stroke may present with various symptoms, including weakness, altered speech, and sensory and visual impairment. We present a case of a 57-year-old man who was brought to the emergency department after he sustained three minor motor vehicle accidents on the same day. After clinical as...

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Autores principales: Al Rawahi, Anood, Al Busaidi, Salim A, Al Kalbani, Humaid, Al Alawi, Abdullah M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8210954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34155460
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15092
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author Al Rawahi, Anood
Al Busaidi, Salim A
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description Acute ischemic stroke may present with various symptoms, including weakness, altered speech, and sensory and visual impairment. We present a case of a 57-year-old man who was brought to the emergency department after he sustained three minor motor vehicle accidents on the same day. After clinical assessment and detailed workup, we concluded that our patient had an acute ischemic infarct involving the left posterior cerebral artery territories causing right homonymous hemianopia resulting in motor vehicle accidents.
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spelling pubmed-82109542021-06-20 Motor Vehicle Accident Due to Homonymous Hemianopia: An Unusual Presentation of Vertebrobasilar Stroke Al Rawahi, Anood Al Busaidi, Salim A Al Kalbani, Humaid Al Alawi, Abdullah M Cureus Internal Medicine Acute ischemic stroke may present with various symptoms, including weakness, altered speech, and sensory and visual impairment. We present a case of a 57-year-old man who was brought to the emergency department after he sustained three minor motor vehicle accidents on the same day. After clinical assessment and detailed workup, we concluded that our patient had an acute ischemic infarct involving the left posterior cerebral artery territories causing right homonymous hemianopia resulting in motor vehicle accidents. Cureus 2021-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8210954/ /pubmed/34155460 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15092 Text en Copyright © 2021, Al Rawahi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Al Rawahi, Anood
Al Busaidi, Salim A
Al Kalbani, Humaid
Al Alawi, Abdullah M
Motor Vehicle Accident Due to Homonymous Hemianopia: An Unusual Presentation of Vertebrobasilar Stroke
title Motor Vehicle Accident Due to Homonymous Hemianopia: An Unusual Presentation of Vertebrobasilar Stroke
title_full Motor Vehicle Accident Due to Homonymous Hemianopia: An Unusual Presentation of Vertebrobasilar Stroke
title_fullStr Motor Vehicle Accident Due to Homonymous Hemianopia: An Unusual Presentation of Vertebrobasilar Stroke
title_full_unstemmed Motor Vehicle Accident Due to Homonymous Hemianopia: An Unusual Presentation of Vertebrobasilar Stroke
title_short Motor Vehicle Accident Due to Homonymous Hemianopia: An Unusual Presentation of Vertebrobasilar Stroke
title_sort motor vehicle accident due to homonymous hemianopia: an unusual presentation of vertebrobasilar stroke
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8210954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34155460
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15092
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