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Stroke selfie by woman helped doctors in quick diagnosis

Darpan News Desk IANS, 17 Jun, 2014 01:33 PM
    Notwithstanding all the flak, your obsession with selfies might not be that bad. It can actually save your life!
     
    Stacey Yepes, 49, from Ontario, lost all feeling on her left side while driving home after running some post-work errands recently.
     
    She grabbed her phone and videotaped herself to show doctors what had been happening to her.
     
    The video shows Yepes describing her symptoms: the left side of her face is drooping and her speech is slurred. She said she cannot move her left arm or leg.
     
    She got herself to Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto where a doctor said he believed she had been experiencing transient ischemic attacks (TIAs).
     
    The physician referred her to the stroke unit at Toronto Western Hospital, where tests confirmed the diagnosis, Huffington Post Canada reported.
     
    "We have never had a patient do this before. I guess for a patient who wanted someone to believe her symptoms were real, it was absolutely incredible," said stroke neurologist Cheryl Jaigobin.
     
    "When we saw the video selfie, we were absolutely convinced that her deficits were clearly because of a mini stroke or a TIA," he added.

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