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Stanley Tuhrim, MD; Jesse Weinberger, MD
Department of Neurology Mount Sinai Medical Center New York, NY 10029

Arch Neurol. 1989;46(9):946.

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To the Editor.

—We read with interest Fisher's description of the "herald hemiparesis" of basilar artery occlusion.¹ We were reassured that his experience confirms our observations in three patients who progressed to the locked-in state after presenting with hemimotor and hemisensory symptoms accompanied by marked dysarthria.² Indeed, as we discussed, several earlier reports of patients who developed this condition due to basilar artery occlusion described a hemiparesis and dysarthria as the presenting symptoms.3-8 In addition, this constellation of findings has been reported to be present in two thirds (10/15) of a sample of patients with brain-stem infarction whose condition subsequently worsened.⁹

We agree that these patients may, at times, be difficult to distinguish from those with hemispheric lesions, and concur that heparin may be a useful treatment if this syndrome is recognized in a timely manner as the harbinger of a potentially grave outcome. Transcranial Doppler . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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