A 33-year-old male, with no known medical history, was admitted to a hospital emergency department at 7.43 hours from his home, with a diagnosis of "cranial trauma causing ischemic stroke".
The night before had suffered a blow with a ball in the neck while playing a football match as a goalkeeper.
During admission a cranial CAT scan was performed, which revealed an ischemic infarction in the territory of the right middle cerebral artery as a result of a traumatic dissection of the right internal carotid artery.
The patient developed endocraneal hypertension and brain herniation, progressing to death, so that she died in an organ donation program 10 days after admission.
