Clinical Reasoning: An Older Woman With Headaches and Lethargy After a Fall.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
In this case, a 77-year-old woman presented with generalized weakness, difficulty ambulating, lethargy, loss of appetite, and headaches after a mechanical fall. This case discusses the management of acute neurologic emergencies such as subdural hematoma, status epilepticus, and bacterial meningitis. Potential etiologies for stroke and CNS infection are highlighted. Readers are led through the diagnostic approach to a patient presenting with a complex array of neurologic symptoms causing rapid clinical decompensation.
Medical subject headings
- Lethargy
- Meningitis, Bacterial