Publications by authors named "Eduardo G Mutarelli"
Article Synopsis
- Diagnosing functional neurological disorders is challenging for neurologists due to common misconceptions during patient evaluations.
- Key points to consider include the fact that bizarre behaviors or emotional triggers don’t always indicate a functional disorder, and that patients can have both functional and organic symptoms simultaneously.
- Effective communication during diagnosis is crucial, as misunderstandings can negatively affect treatment and patient outcomes.
Iatrogenic meningitis can be caused by a number of mechanisms. The recent case reports of fungal meningitis after application of epidural methylprednisolone caused warning in the medical community. Cases were caused by contaminated lots of methylprednisolone from a single compounding pharmacy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma is a relatively rare but potentially disabling disease. Prompt timely surgical management may promote recovery even in severe cases.
Case Presentation: We report a 34-year-old man with a 2-hour history of sudden severe back pain, followed by weakness and numbness over the bilateral lower limbs, progressing to intense paraparesis and anesthesia.
Hypersexuality is a rare but well recognized condition following brain injury. It has been described secondarily to dysfunction in the hypothalamus, the temporal and frontal lobes. We report a 63 year-old man that developed neuropsychological disturbances with hypersexuality as a prominent feature, disinhibition and moderate memory loss, hypersomnia and irritability after a bilateral paramedian thalamic infarction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To trace the socio-functional and clinical profiles of elders with moderate levels of movement functionality as determined by the Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA Ia), and to compare the groups having high and moderate levels of functionality regarding the frequency of falls and identifiable risk factors.
Methods: The research involved 49 elders (with an average age of 71.24, SD 5.
We report the case of a 27 year old man who presented to the emergency room of a hospital with headache, vomiting and an episode of loss of conciousness. A cranial CT scan was normal and the patient discharged. Ten hours later he came to the emergency room of our hospital with the same complaints.
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