Strokes affect 100,000 patients annually in the United Kingdom. These patients are often complex and require multidisciplinary team input, hence why they are often treated within dedicated and highly specialized "hyper acute stroke units". However, such specialist care can prove challenging to recently qualified or more junior doctors, who may miss pertinent aspects of the history or examination within the daily patient rounding documentation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis the third most frequent cause of bacterial meningitis and has a predilection for elderly patients and the immunosuppressed. A small number of patients with meningoencephalitis have previously been reported to experience stroke-like symptoms that were attributed to microabscess formation and the mass effect of collections of infection in the brain. These infections led to temporary neurological deficits that resolved with antimicrobial treatment, rather than to true strokes with permanent neurological deficits.
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