Educational Case: Etiologies, Mechanisms, and Treatment of Stroke

Lymaries Velez; Steven Toffel; Jorge Trejo-Lopez; Jesse L Kresak; Stacy G Beal

doi:10.1177/2374289520901817

Educational Case: Etiologies, Mechanisms, and Treatment of Stroke

Acad Pathol. 2020 Jan 26:7:2374289520901817. doi: 10.1177/2374289520901817. eCollection 2020 Jan-Dec.

Authors

Lymaries Velez¹, Steven Toffel¹, Jorge Trejo-Lopez², Jesse L Kresak², Stacy G Beal²

Affiliations

¹ University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA.
² Department of Pathology, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL, USA.

Abstract

The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040.¹.

Keywords: brain ischemia; central nervous system; classification of stroke; organ system pathology; pathology competencies; stroke; stroke treatment.