Teaching NeuroImages: Comatose patient with bilateral thalamic infarct due to internal carotid artery occlusion.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
An 88-year-old woman with a medical history of diabetes, hypertension, and atrial fibrillation presented to the emergency room after being found unresponsive with a NIH Stroke Scale score of 23 and Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3. She was unresponsive to painful stimuli. Noncontrast CT demonstrated bilateral thalamic infarcts (figure 1A).
Medical subject headings
- Arterial Occlusive Diseases
- Brain Infarction
- Carotid Artery Diseases
- Coma
- Thalamus