Case 10-1963

Abstract

Presentation of Case* First admission. A sixty-five-year-old mother of 11 children entered the hospital because of dyspnea.The patient had been well until ten years before entry, when she entered another hospital because of chest pain, which was diagnosed as a "coronary attack." Shortly thereafter, she experienced loss of function of the left arm and leg and loss of vision, both of which returned spontaneously; the details of these episodes were vague. Hypertension was reported to be present at that time, and she was told that her blood pressure was 200 systolic. Moderate dyspnea on exertion developed, and for . . .