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Neurology 2003;60:1983-1985
© 2003 American Academy of Neurology
Brief Communications

Stroke associated with pulmonary embolism after air travel

F. Lapostolle, MD, S. W. Borron, MD MS, V. Surget, MD, D. Sordelet, MD, C. Lapandry, MD and F. Adnet, MD PhD

From SAMU 93, Hôpital Avicenne (Drs. Lapostolle, Borron, Surget, Sordelet, Lapandry, and Adnet), UPRES 34-09, Université Paris XIII, Bobigny, France; and the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medicine (Occupational and Environmental Health) (Dr. Borron), George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Frédéric Lapostolle, SAMU 93, CHU Avicenne, 125, rue de Stalingrad, 93009 Bobigny, France; e-mail: frederic.lapostolle{at}avc.ap-hop-paris.fr

Prolonged air travel is associated with an increased incidence of thromboembolic events. The occurrence of stroke was studied in patients with pulmonary embolism after air travel in a review of all flights arriving at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris during an 8-year period. Thromboembolic stroke and patent foramen ovale were diagnosed in four patients with pulmonary embolus.




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