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Written by Gabriela Segura, MD
Sunday, 6 April 2008 19:40

History

54 years old make, brought to the Emergency Room (ER) at Miguel Server Hospital when he was found semi unconscious. He was seen working a few hours earlier in an apparently normal way; he arrives to the ER in an obnubilate state, with evident right hemiparesis and motor aphasia.

History of Personal Past Illnesses

His family members referred that he had a non-treated diabetes (high blood sugar), hypertension (high blood pressure), dyslipidemia (high cholesterol), habitual alcoholic consumption and he was in the hospital 4 months earlier with a sternal fracture (fracture of the breastbone). There was no past history of syncope and no previous cardiological studies.

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