La enfermedad neurológica de Georg Friedrich Händel

Georg Friedrich Händel, a musical genius, was affected since his middle age by several attacks, during a period of 20 years, of upper right limb palsies, abnormal speech followed by amaurosis in his contralateral eye and then is both eyes. He underwent three unsuccessful operations due to a wrong di...

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Autor principal: Miranda C,Marcelo
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2007
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720070003000172014-01-06La enfermedad neurológica de Georg Friedrich HändelMiranda C,Marcelo Blindness Cerebrovascular disorders Intracranial embolism and thrombosis Georg Friedrich Händel, a musical genius, was affected since his middle age by several attacks, during a period of 20 years, of upper right limb palsies, abnormal speech followed by amaurosis in his contralateral eye and then is both eyes. He underwent three unsuccessful operations due to a wrong diagnosis of cataracts. We discuss the possible differential diagnoses. Considering his clear vascular profile, the most plausible hypothesis is cerebrovascular disease with embolic infarcts from stenotic left internal carotid artery to the left middle cerebral and retinal arteriesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.135 n.3 20072007-03-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872007000300017es10.4067/S0034-98872007000300017
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language Spanish / Castilian
topic Blindness
Cerebrovascular disorders
Intracranial embolism and thrombosis
spellingShingle Blindness
Cerebrovascular disorders
Intracranial embolism and thrombosis
Miranda C,Marcelo
La enfermedad neurológica de Georg Friedrich Händel
description Georg Friedrich Händel, a musical genius, was affected since his middle age by several attacks, during a period of 20 years, of upper right limb palsies, abnormal speech followed by amaurosis in his contralateral eye and then is both eyes. He underwent three unsuccessful operations due to a wrong diagnosis of cataracts. We discuss the possible differential diagnoses. Considering his clear vascular profile, the most plausible hypothesis is cerebrovascular disease with embolic infarcts from stenotic left internal carotid artery to the left middle cerebral and retinal arteries
author Miranda C,Marcelo
author_facet Miranda C,Marcelo
author_sort Miranda C,Marcelo
title La enfermedad neurológica de Georg Friedrich Händel
title_short La enfermedad neurológica de Georg Friedrich Händel
title_full La enfermedad neurológica de Georg Friedrich Händel
title_fullStr La enfermedad neurológica de Georg Friedrich Händel
title_full_unstemmed La enfermedad neurológica de Georg Friedrich Händel
title_sort la enfermedad neurológica de georg friedrich händel
publisher Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate 2007
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