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[A 49-year-old woman with deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and left-sided paralysis].
Der Internist - 1 Oct 2008
Jurisch D, Szokodi D, Pfeiffer D, Kahn T, Engelmann L
Abstract excerpt
We report the case of a 49-year-old female patient who was admitted stationary because of a left-sided paralysis which had appeared some hours before. An embolic occlusion of the right A. cerebri media turned out to be the cause. A paradoxical embolism could be assumed because of an existing deep vein thrombosis and an increased right-ventricular pressure within a hemodynamically relevant fulminant pulmonary...
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