Clinical Reasoning: A man with rapidly progressive weakness and respiratory failure
| Autor: | Denise Xu, Kathleen Murphy, Ramani Balu, Jon Rosenberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Male
Weakness Constitutional symptoms Malaise Late summer 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Aged Leg weakness Muscle Weakness business.industry Clinical reasoning medicine.disease Kidney Transplantation Respiratory failure Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Anesthesia Disease Progression Neurology (clinical) Presentation (obstetrics) medicine.symptom business Respiratory Insufficiency 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Neurology. 91(7) |
| ISSN: | 1526-632X |
| Popis: | A 70-year-old man presented in late summer with rapidly progressive weakness and respiratory failure. He was in his usual state of health until 1 week prior to presentation, when he developed malaise, headache, and fevers, followed by right leg weakness, prompting admission to a local hospital. Over the next 3 days, his weakness progressed to involve his right arm, then his extraocular, facial, and bulbar muscles, followed by his left arm and leg. On the fourth day of hospitalization (2 weeks after the onset of constitutional symptoms), he was intubated due to an inability to clear oral secretions and was transferred to our institution. |
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