1. Gas Embolic Stroke Secondary to Bowel Infarction
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Swarupsinh Chavda, Dhruv Parikh, and Joe Joseph Leyon
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Resuscitation ,Esophageal Neoplasms ,Ischemia ,Hemiplegia ,Adenocarcinoma ,03 medical and health sciences ,Fatal Outcome ,Mesenteric Veins ,Postoperative Complications ,0302 clinical medicine ,Intestine, Small ,Embolism, Air ,Humans ,Medicine ,Pneumatosis intestinalis ,Stroke ,Peritoneal Neoplasms ,Pelvis ,Aged ,Abdomen, Acute ,Bowel infarction ,Ileostomy ,Portal Vein ,business.industry ,Rehabilitation ,medicine.disease ,Frontal Lobe ,Embolic stroke ,Esophagectomy ,Radiography ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Intracranial Embolism ,Infarction ,Abdomen ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Surgery ,Neurology (clinical) ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
A 69-year-old gentleman with metastatic esophageal adenocarcinoma presented with acute abdominal pain to the emergency medicine department and subsequently developed an acute left hemiplegia while in the resuscitation unit. An unenhanced computed tomography (CT) scan of the head showed right frontal cerebral gas emboli while an unenhanced CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis showed extensive portal venous gas and pneumatosis intestinalis, presumed secondary to bowel infarction.
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- 2016
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