Patient Information
A 72 year old male patient, left-handed, was taken to the hospital by
ambulance with complaints of weakness in the left extremities,
left-sided visual field loss, speech impairment, nausea, and dizziness
which appeared immediately after awakening. The patient had a history of
arterial hypertension (grade 2, risk 4) which was not properly
controlled by antihypertensive medication. As the exact time of stroke
onset was not known, the patient was not eligible for thrombolytic
therapy.