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Mar 9, 2022 • 19 tweets • 12 min read
1/ 🧵Pt p/w headaches and 2 weeks of progressive left sided weakness. No history of immunosuppression. Open image of selected MRI brain w/ and w/o sequences ⬇️
✅Discuss a rare cause of acute ischemic stroke
✅ Review thrombectomy safety w thrombocytopenia (tcp)
✅Review dx and pathophys of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
✅Review the treatment of TTP