Stroke or No Stroke: A Case Report of Bilingual Aphasia

INTRODUCTION: Bilingual aphasia is an atypical stroke presentation in the multilingual patient where an isolated aphasia occurs in one language while the other remains unaffected. CASE REPORT: A multilingual male presented to the emergency department with expressive aphasia to English but who was st...

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Autores principales: Gray, Matthew, Ernst, Jacob, Ashworth, Simeon, Patel, Ronak, Couperus, Kyle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8373183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34437039
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2021.4.51206
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author Gray, Matthew
Ernst, Jacob
Ashworth, Simeon
Patel, Ronak
Couperus, Kyle
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description INTRODUCTION: Bilingual aphasia is an atypical stroke presentation in the multilingual patient where an isolated aphasia occurs in one language while the other remains unaffected. CASE REPORT: A multilingual male presented to the emergency department with expressive aphasia to English but who was still able to speak fluently in French. Receptive English was preserved. While his National Institute of Health Stroke Scale score was technically zero, his pure aphasia component qualified him as an exception. He regained some repetitive English, so fibrinolyitic therapy was not initiated. CONCLUSION: Bilingual aphasia is an indication for fibrinolysis given the impact that a pure aphasic stroke has on quality of life.
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spelling pubmed-83731832021-08-24 Stroke or No Stroke: A Case Report of Bilingual Aphasia Gray, Matthew Ernst, Jacob Ashworth, Simeon Patel, Ronak Couperus, Kyle Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Case Report INTRODUCTION: Bilingual aphasia is an atypical stroke presentation in the multilingual patient where an isolated aphasia occurs in one language while the other remains unaffected. CASE REPORT: A multilingual male presented to the emergency department with expressive aphasia to English but who was still able to speak fluently in French. Receptive English was preserved. While his National Institute of Health Stroke Scale score was technically zero, his pure aphasia component qualified him as an exception. He regained some repetitive English, so fibrinolyitic therapy was not initiated. CONCLUSION: Bilingual aphasia is an indication for fibrinolysis given the impact that a pure aphasic stroke has on quality of life. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2021-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8373183/ /pubmed/34437039 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2021.4.51206 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Gray et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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title_short Stroke or No Stroke: A Case Report of Bilingual Aphasia
title_sort stroke or no stroke: a case report of bilingual aphasia
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