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Condition: Aphasia
Therapy: Thrombolytic Therapy
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A male Fabry disease patient treated with intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke
We report a 38-year-old man with acute aphasia and a left M2 segment of the middle cerebral artery thrombus with no recanalization who was finally diagnosed with Fabry disease after left ventricular hypertrophy of undetermined cause had been identified. A gene test revealed a R227X mutation typical of Fabry disease with the classical phenotype. To our knowledge our patient is the first reported male Fabry patient who was given intravenous thrombolytic therapy and the first reported Fabry patient who received intravenous thrombolytic therapy between 3 and 4.5hours of the symptom onset. Despite favorable prognostic indicator...
Source: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience - January 14, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
