Recurrent Strokes in a Patient With Metastatic Lung Cancer

Abstract

A stroke, also known as cerebrovascular accident (CVA), is a medical condition that occurs when the blood supply to the brain is interrupted, resulting in brain cell death. Cancer-associated stroke (CAS) is a rare but serious complication of cancer, where a malignant tumor or its metastases invade or compress the blood vessels in the brain, resulting in a stroke. We describe a case of a 60-year-old male patient recently diagnosed with lung cancer with metastasis to the liver, esophagus, small intestine, and pancreas who has had at least three CVAs within a span of three months. He developed sequelae such as hemiplegia and aphasia. He was managed with dual antiplatelet therapy, neuroprotective drugs, and physiotherapy. Patients with advanced cancers should be routinely screened for neurovascular complications and risks. Prophylactic therapy should be started wherever warranted.

ChatGPT in Healthcare: A Taxonomy and Systematic Review

“…Among them, article written in languages other than English (e.g., French [84]), without full text access (e.g., [62]), or whose main content has little to do with (or is not specific to) either ChatGPT (e.g., [46, 104, 33, 37]) or healthcare (e.g., [97, 103, 27, 6, 39, 13, 88, 21, 66, 115, 102, 43]) are excluded. Other representative exclusions include [44, 55], which deal with CPT-3, and [56, 30, 90, 2], where the authors claimed that ChatGPT assisted with the writing of the papers or case reports, but did not provide any discussion of the appropriateness of the generated texts and how the texts were incorporated into the main content. Generic comments that are not specific to healthcare, such as [105, 115, 16, 50], where the authors comment on the authorship of ChatGPT and using ChatGPT in scientific writing, are also excluded.…”

Managing Temporomandibular Joint Ankylosis Concurrent With Extrahepatic Portal Vein Obstruction: A Report of a Rare Case and Literature Review Investigating the Hypercoagulability Link

“…In older children, conditions such as abdominal infections (e.g., peritonitis), primary sclerosing cholangitis, chronic pancreatitis, myeloproliferative disorders, and hypercoagulable disorders like factor 5, protein C, and protein S deficiency can lead to EHPVO [ 7 ]. Hepatic complications encompass portal hypertension, presenting as splenomegaly, ascites, abdominal pain, and severe upper gastrointestinal bleeding, and may progress to jaundice, coagulopathy, and fatal hepatic encephalopathy [ 8 ]. Oral and cutaneous manifestations include spider angiomas, gingival bleeding, mucosal telangiectasia, and palmar erythema [ 9 ].…”