A 35-year-old New York City man paid about $2,500 for a whole body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan that came up healthy — but then suffered a massive stroke less than a year later that the expensive procedure flagged no sign of, The Washington Post reports.
Now the stroke victim, Sean Clifford, is suing the MRI company behind the scan, Prenuvo — which has been endorsed by celebrities ranging from Paris Hilton to Cindy Crawford — for missing in the scans that 6o percent of his proximal right middle cerebral artery, a common site for strokes, had narrowed and showed “irregularity.”
Clifford, who suffered a stroke in the same area where the blockage was missed by Prenuvo, is now paralyzed on his left side and permanently disabled — throwing into high relief that these scans, which prey on people’s fears, aren’t exactly fool proof-despite extravagant claims that they can pick up anything from tumors to brain aneurysms.
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