title: Teaching NeuroImages: Comatose patient with bilateral thalamic infarct due to internal carotid artery occlusion.
abstract: An 88-year-old woman with a medical history of diabetes, hypertension, and atrial fibrillation presented to the emergency room after being found unresponsive with a NIH Stroke Scale score of 23 and Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3. She was unresponsive to painful stimuli. Noncontrast CT demonstrated bilateral thalamic infarcts (figure 1A).
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience Institute at JFK Medical Center, Edison, NJ, USA. Haitham82@gmail.com
authors.forename: Haitham
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dababneh
authors.forename: Aleksandr
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shikhman
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moussavi
authors.forename: Waldo R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Guerrero
authors.forename: Spozhmy
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Panezai
authors.forename: Jawad F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Kirmani
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000150:complications; D020520:Brain Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D003128:Coma / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications; D013788:Thalamus / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology