Severe symptoms of brainstem infarction

Brainstem infarction is a very dangerous and serious disease. Patients will show the following clinical symptoms. First, patients will show hemiplegia of limbs, accompanied by hemiparesis, and severe patients will even show quadriplegia, suggesting that the area of brainstem infarction is very large. Second, patients will show dysphagia, dysarthria, drinking cough, or even complete inability to eat, requiring gastric intubation. Third, the patient may exhibit clinical symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, vomiting, double vision, and, if the brainstem infarction is large, confusion, or even coma.