Preretinal hemorrhages following chiropractor neck manipulation
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Vertebral artery dissection after a chiropractor neck manipulation.
The differential diagnosis for ischemic central nervous system infarcts in young patients includes paradoxic emboli through cardiac shunts, vasculitis, and vascular trauma. We report a young woman who developed headache, vomiting, diplopia, dizziness, and ataxia following neck manipulation by her chiropractor. A computed tomography scan of the head revealed an infarct in the inferior half of th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2451-9936
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajoc.2018.04.017