meningitis following ventriculoperitoneal shunt repair: Case report and literature review.

Introduction: is an uncommon and potentially severe cause of bacterial meningitis that can be seen in the setting of neurosurgical procedures. We describe here a case of meningitis in a patient with VP shunt revision.

Case Report: The patient is a 59-year-old female with VP shunt placed several years prior in the setting of normal pressure hydrocephalus.

A novel case of bacteremia secondary to liver abscess formation following transarterial chemoembolization.

is an uncommon gram-negative bacterium that has rarely been identified as the causative organism in severe infections. Few cases have been described and have included patients with pneumonia, urinary tract infections or cholangitis. Only one case has reported to involve a liver abscess, thought to be from a primary urologic source.

Rapid Onset of Motor Deficits in a Mouse Model of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 6 Precedes Late Cerebellar Degeneration.

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6) is an autosomal-dominant cerebellar ataxia that has been associated with loss of cerebellar Purkinje cells. Disease onset is typically at midlife, although it can vary widely from late teens to old age in SCA6 patients. Our study focused on an SCA6 knock-in mouse model with a hyper-expanded (84X) CAG repeat expansion that displays midlife-onset motor deficits at ∼7 months old, reminiscent of midlife-onset symptoms in SCA6 patients, although a detailed phenotypic analysis of these mice has not yet been reported.