Stroke

The wife of a 75-year-old previously healthy man calls her internist to report her husband’s acute episode of “confusion.”

A 63-year-old man with a medical history significant for Bell palsy, non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, and hepatitis C virus...

A 72-year-old man presented to the hospital for an apparent thrombotic stroke. Regarding the present illness, the patient’s history began about 3 months prior, when a friend noticed that the patient’s left...

A 69-year-old previously healthy man had experienced the acute onset of weakness in his right hand and arm after driving home from playing a round of golf. The weakness progressed quickly from paresis and...

Isolated unilateral oculomotor nerve paresis is a rare presentation of midbrain cerebrovascular accident. This report describes a case of isolated unilateral oculomotor nerve paresis resulting from a tiny...

The human body has an array of physiologic mechanisms available to withstand the effects of environmental heat stress and humidity. Despite this, athletes routinely succumb to the effects of exertional heat...

A 65-year-old man presented to the emergency department for the evaluation of right upper-extremity paresthesias of 1 week’s duration. He also reported clumsiness of the right hand that had worsened over...

A 15-year-old girl with a history of chronic migraine presented to the clinic with what she called the worst headache of her life.

A meconium-stained, nonvigorous girl was born at 41 weeks of gestation via normal, spontaneous vaginal delivery to a 30-year-old, gravida 1, para 1 mother.