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Two days before being admitted to our university hospital, a young lady (28) was urgently hospitalised at a regional hospital after she had been found unresponsive on the bathroom floor. Carbon monoxide poisoning caused by malfunctioning gas-powered water boiler was suspected. The initial CT exam was reported as normal. Upon waking from coma, she had left-sided hemiparesis. During the next several days, her neurological status became completely normal, but ventricular extrasystolia was noticed, so a suspicion of cardiogenic loss of consciousness arose. A MRI exam of the brain was requested (Fig. 11.1).
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Vavro, H. (2018). Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Sequelae. In: Neuroradiology - Expect the Unexpected. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73482-8_11
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