Neurology
- When stroke runs in the family
CADASIL—cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy—is due to a mutation in NOTCH3.
- Office approach to small fiber neuropathy
A practical approach for identifying an underlying cause is to fi rst screen for common ones.
- Brain abscesses in a 60-year-old man
The lesions were not from compromised immunity, but from septic hematogenous spread of an odontogenic infection.
- Osmotic demyelination syndrome due to hyperosmolar hyperglycemia
Rapid correction of chronic hyponatremia can trigger this rare but life-threatening disorder.
- What inpatient treatments do we have for acute intractable migraine?
Options: volume repletion, antiemetics, antiepileptics, NSAIDs, corticosteroids, and magnesium sulfate. Avoid opioids.
- ‘Non-criteria’ antiphospholipid antibodies and thrombosis (February 2018)
Readers comment on antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (February 2018).
- Central nervous system lymphoma mimicking Bell palsy
Failure of presumed Bell palsy to improve should prompt an evaluation for an underlying condition.
- Is a detailed neurologic physical examination always necessary?
In medicine, we need all the help we can get.
- Eyes of the mimicker
A 42-year-old man presented with intermittent fevers, rigors, headache, and myalgia, and now, one-sided vision loss.