The importance of early completion of cardiac investigations after ischaemic stroke: a case and systematic review of reperfusion therapy in stroke due to cardiac fibroelastoma

We describe a rare case of a 69-year-old woman presenting with sudden onset right-sided weakness, sensory disturbance and dysarthria due to a left-middle cerebral artery territory stroke. The patient was successfully thrombolysed, but shortly developed a recurrent stroke in a different vascular