|Slideshows|July 24, 2018

Case Study: Vascular Risk Factors Reach Tipping Point

By the time a 45-year-old patient with hypertension, slurred speech, and weakness in the right arm and right leg was examined in the emergency department, his symptoms had completely disappeared. However, examination, labs, and imaging showed the case was anything but "resolved."

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