More Case Studies in Stroke

Michael G. Hennerici MD is Professor of Neurology and Chairman, Department of Neurology, UniversitätsMedizin Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Rolf Kern is Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, UniversitätsMedizin Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Louis R. Caplan is Senior Neurologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, and Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School. Kristina Szabo is Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, UniversitätsMedizin Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

List of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Common Cases of Stroke: Case 1. Woman with aphasia and right-sided numbness Kristina Szabo; Case 2. Dysarthria and hemiparesis Martin Griebe; Case 3. From vertigo to coma Angelika Alonso; Case 4. Laughing and crying without any reason Angelika Alonso; Case 5. Severe stroke in a 66-year old man Angelika Alonso; Case 6. Right hemispheric stroke in a young man Micha Kablau; Case 7. Dysarthria and severe hemiparesis Valentin Held; Part II. Uncommon Cases of Stroke: Case 8. Stroke in a 12-year-old girl Manuel Bolognese; Case 9. Woman with headache, arthritis and nausea Johannes Binder and Kristina Szabo; Case 10. Woman with transient sensory disturbance Kristina Szabo; Case 11. A severe attack of migraine Marc Wolf; Case 12. An acute loss of vision Tillmann Menzel; Case 13. Angiography with complications Alex Förster and Kristina Szabo; Case 14. 'I can still write' Caroline Ottomeyer; Case 15. Old lady with sudden confusion Kristina Szabo; Case 16. Neck pain and upper arm paresis Ralph Werner, Miriam Pfeiffer and Johannes C. Wöhrle; Case 17. Aphasia during pregnancy Ralph Werner and Johannes C. Wöhrle; Case 18. Hemiparesis in a man treated for prostate carcinoma James A. Adams; Case 19. Horner syndrome and headache Paolo Costa and Alessandro Pezzini; Case 20. Involuntary shaking of the arm and leg Sefanja Achterberg, Suzanne Persoon and L. Jaap Kappelle; Case 21. A young woman with infertility Patricia Martínez-Sánchez, Blanca Fuentes and Exuperio Díez-Tejedor; Case 22. Acute weakness of the right lower limb Angelika Alonso; Case 23. Recurrent embolic stroke in a 61-year-old man Christopher Schwarzbach; Case 24. Repeated episodes of weakness and visual loss Eva Hornberger and Valentin Held; Case 25. A woman with transient double vision Philipp Eisele; Case 26. Acute myocardial infarction during thrombolysis Ana Patrícia Antunes, Ruth Geraldes and Tiago Teodoro; Case 27. A misleading ca(u)se of cerebral microbleeds Sofie De Blauwe and Katlijn Schotsmans; Case 28. A psychiatrist battled by the sea Louis R. Caplan; Case 29. Severe migraine with double vision Louis R. Caplan; Case 30. Another young woman with infertility Markus Stürmlinger; Case 31. Man with bilateral hypoglossal palsy Bettina Anders; Case 32. Thoracic pain and right-hemispheric syndrome Nadja Meyer; Case 33. Severe gait disorder in a 38-year-old man Tillmann Menzel; Case 34. Visual field loss and memory disturbance Marc Wolf; Part III. Stroke Mimics: Case 35. Right hemiparesis with behavioural changes Kristina Szabo; Case 36. Acute stroke symptoms in a 23-year-old man Björn Reuter and Marc Wolf; Case 37. Acute onset of expressive speech disturbance Martin Griebe; Case 38. Complete loss of vision in a 44-year-old woman Philipp Eisele; Case 39. Spells of numbness in a biochemical graduate Louis R. Caplan; Case 40. Recurrent episodes of disturbed speech Tillmann Menzel; Case 41. Acute aphasia and hemiparesis Marc Wolf; Case 42. Man with gait disturbance and urinary retention Valentin Held; Index.