Sassen v. Lazar

Orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered April 24, 2012, which, in this medical malpractice action, granted defendants-respondents’ motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff initially claimed that defendants failed, on December 11 and 12, 2007, to diagnose a stroke that occurred on December 27, 2007. Plaintiff, on appeal, claims a failure to diagnose and detect a cardiac thrombus (blood clot) in plaintiff’s artificial heart valve.

*411Defendants made a prima facie showing of their entitlement to judgment as a…