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80 yr old male with altered sensorium

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Hi all. This is Ramya, a  3rd year dental student.             This is an online e-log book to discuss our patient's de-identified health data shared after taking his/her/guardian's informed consent. Here we discuss our individual patient's problems through series of inputs from available global online community of experts with an aim to solve those patient's clinical problems with collective current best evidence based inputs.  Note :This is an ongoing case and will be updated as and when the information is provided. A 75 year old male was brought to the casualty for further care for known case of CVA diagnosed 1 week back. HISTORY OF PRESENTING ILLNESS The patient was apparently asymptomatic 10 days back when he observed deviation of mouth. associated slurring of speech not associated with drooling of saliva.The patient also complained about throat pain and difficulty in swallowing(solids and liquids equally) 10 days back for which Upper GI endoscopy was done(which sh