The Triad of Idiopathic Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus A Clinical Practice Case Report

An 89-year-old white male presented with memory impairment, slowness in responsiveness, and frequent falls over a two-year duration. Six months earlier, the patient was believed to have had a “dementia with parkinsonian features,” but showed no response to incrementing doses of both donepezil and ca...

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Autores principales: Lakhan, SE, Gross, K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CoAction Publishing 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3074332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21516243
http://dx.doi.org/10.4176/071112
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description An 89-year-old white male presented with memory impairment, slowness in responsiveness, and frequent falls over a two-year duration. Six months earlier, the patient was believed to have had a “dementia with parkinsonian features,” but showed no response to incrementing doses of both donepezil and carbidopa-levodopa. Urinary urgency was believed to have been due to prostate hypertrophy. A head CT with contrast revealed moderate ventriculomegaly in the setting of mild diffuse cortical atrophy. A diagnosis of idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus (INPH) was made.
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spelling pubmed-30743322011-04-22 The Triad of Idiopathic Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus A Clinical Practice Case Report Lakhan, SE Gross, K Libyan J Med Case Report An 89-year-old white male presented with memory impairment, slowness in responsiveness, and frequent falls over a two-year duration. Six months earlier, the patient was believed to have had a “dementia with parkinsonian features,” but showed no response to incrementing doses of both donepezil and carbidopa-levodopa. Urinary urgency was believed to have been due to prostate hypertrophy. A head CT with contrast revealed moderate ventriculomegaly in the setting of mild diffuse cortical atrophy. A diagnosis of idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus (INPH) was made. CoAction Publishing 2008-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3074332/ /pubmed/21516243 http://dx.doi.org/10.4176/071112 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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