The acute vestibular syndrome with dysarthria

This is a 50-year-old woman with the acute onset of vertigo, dysarthria, dysphagia and dysphonia/hoarseness (nucleus ambiguus), ptosis and imbalance. Her examination localized to a left lateral medullary (Wallenberg) syndrome - there was decreased sensation on the left side of the face (spinal trigeminal nucleus and tract) and the right arm and leg (spinothalamic tract), a left Horner’s syndrome (oculosympathetic tract), left hemi-ataxia (inferior cerebellar peduncle), leftward ocular lateropulsion (apparent throughout the video during blinks - during eyelid closure, there is conjugate deviation to the left, and when the eyelids open, the eyes move to the right into primary gaze) which is usually seen with hypermetric saccades to the left (ipsilateral) and hypometric saccades to the right (contralateral), relating to injury of the climbing fibers traveling through
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