Akin to the rapid growth in hospitalist medicine seen in the prior decade, there has been a recent explosion in the need for neurohospitalists. Factors driving this demand include nationally mandated quality and safety measures, the increasing complexity and age of the hospitalized patient, and diminished training in diagnosis and management of neurological illnesses for internal medicine residents. The role of the neurohospitalist is varied and may include not only providing neurological care to hospitalized patients but also serving as a leader in an institution's push to meet quality and safety measures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Hydrocephalus with normal intracranial pressure has rarely been reported to result in herniation.
Methods: Case report.
Results: A 52-year-old man became acutely comatose with extensor posturing and ventriculomegaly 17 days after experiencing a primary ventricular hemorrhage.
Medication and toxin-induced neuropathies, although uncommon, are important to identify because of potential reversibility. Numerous medications and toxins are implicated with neuropathy, but objective proof is lacking for many. Chemotherapeutic agents, nucleoside analogs, and other medications and toxins have clear causative links with neuropathy, but many agents have only rare temporal associations.
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