Stroke Chameleons

Conclusions: Stroke chameleons may result in patients not receiving appropriate care. The largest proportions of chameleons were AMS, syncope, hypertensive emergency, systemic infection, and suspected ACS. Patients diagnosed with hypertensive emergency or AMS had an 8% and 7% chance of having an acute stroke. Physicians should consider stroke in patients with these diagnoses with a lower threshold to obtain neuroimaging with subsequent appropriate management.

http://www.strokejournal.org/article/S1052-3057(13)00281-4/abstract?rss=yes

Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - August 19, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Callum M. Dupre, Richard Libman, Samuel I. Dupre, Jeffrey M. Katz, Igor Rybinnik, Thomas Kwiatkowski Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research