Patient Information
A 72 year old male patient, left-handed, was taken to the hospital by ambulance with complaints of weakness in the left extremities, left-sided visual field loss, speech impairment, nausea, and dizziness which appeared immediately after awakening. The patient had a history of arterial hypertension (grade 2, risk 4) which was not properly controlled by antihypertensive medication. As the exact time of stroke onset was not known, the patient was not eligible for thrombolytic therapy.