CASE RECORDS of the MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL. Case 13-2016. A 49-Year-Old Woman with Sudden Hemiplegia and Aphasia during a Transatlantic Flight

N Engl J Med. 2016 Apr 28;374(17):1671-80. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1501151.

Authors

Lee H Schwamm¹, Michael R Jaff¹, K Sophia Dyer¹, R Gilberto Gonzalez¹, Amelia E Huck¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Departments of Neurology (L.H.S.), Medicine (M.R.J.), Radiology (R.G.G.), and Pathology (A.E.H.), Massachusetts General Hospital, the Departments of Neurology (L.H.S.), Medicine (M.R.J.), Radiology (R.G.G.), and Pathology (A.E.H.), Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center, and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine (K.S.D.) - all in Boston.

PMID: 27119240
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1501151

No abstract available

Publication types

Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Aerospace Medicine*
Aphasia / etiology
Brain Ischemia / diagnosis
Brain Ischemia / etiology
Carcinoma, Renal Cell / diagnosis
Carotid Artery, Common / diagnostic imaging
Cerebral Angiography
Diagnosis, Differential
Embolism, Paradoxical / complications
Embolism, Paradoxical / diagnosis*
Female
Foramen Ovale, Patent / complications
Foramen Ovale, Patent / diagnosis*
Hemiplegia / etiology
Humans
Incidental Findings
Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / diagnosis*
Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / etiology
Kidney Neoplasms / diagnosis
Middle Aged
Travel
Troponin T / blood

Substances

Troponin T