Authors

Mark Sader

MBBS (Hons), PhD, FRACP, FCSANZ, Director of Cardiology, St George Public Hospital and Hurstville Private Hospital, NSW; Senior Staff Specialist in Cardiology, St George Hospital, NSW; Conjoint Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales, NSW


A case of cryptogenic stroke in a young woman with a patent foramen ovale

A woman aged 36 years presented to her general practitioner because of an episode of sudden-onset vertigo, left ear tinnitus, right arm numbness and weakness, difficulty speaking and headache.