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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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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 Al Kalbani, Humaid Al Alawi, Abdullah M |
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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. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine 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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