Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: We describe a 31-year-old woman who presented with acute right-sided weakness and was found to have a subarachnoid hemorrhage in the left Sylvian fissure and an ipsilateral frontal intraparenchymal hemorrhage. CT angiography revealed an occlusion of the left middle cerebral artery's M1 segment and a saccular aneurysm at its bifurcation. A cerebral angiogram confirmed these findings, and the patient subsequently underwent microsurgical aneurysm resection, which revealed a partially thrombosed pseudoaneurysm. Further stroke workup identified mitral valve vegetation, confirming the diagnosis of infective endocarditis.
Source: Cureus
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.69082
Institution: Saint Louis University
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4402411994