Young adults with stroke symptoms are sometimes misdiagnosed in emergency rooms
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 14:28
in Health & Medicine
In the Misdiagnosis of Acute Stroke in the Young During Initial Presentation in the Emergency Room study, researchers reviewed data on 57 patients, ages 16 to 50 years old, enrolled since 2001 in the Young Stroke Registry at the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich.