Todd's Paralysis: A Crucial Entity Masquerading Stroke in the Emergency Department

A 73-year-old female with history of hypertension, left parietal ischemic stroke (leading to sequela of slight paralysis in her right extremities), and symptomatic epilepsy presented with right-sided weakness after a 5-min-long, convulsive right-sided seizure. Due to the post-seizure right-sided paralysis, the patient was referred to our center with a provisional diagnosis of acute stroke. However, interrogation of patient history revealed that the patient had been taking aspirin 300  mg and phenytoin 2 × 100 mg regularly before her presentation.
Source: The Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Visual Diagnosis in Emergency Medicine Source Type: research