Male with Altered Mental Status

CASE PRESENTATION: A 62-year-old male presented to the emergency department with altered mental status and fever. Computed tomography of the head showed enlargement of the left lateral ventricle. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated debris and purulence in the ventricle along with edema and trans...

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Autores principales: Kondrat, Jason, Ilyaguyev, Ben, Stern, Jonathan, Choe, Teresa, Greenstein, Josh, Hahn, Barry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2021
Materias:
Images in Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7872607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33560974
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.12.50960
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author Kondrat, Jason
Ilyaguyev, Ben
Stern, Jonathan
Choe, Teresa
Greenstein, Josh
Hahn, Barry
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description CASE PRESENTATION: A 62-year-old male presented to the emergency department with altered mental status and fever. Computed tomography of the head showed enlargement of the left lateral ventricle. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated debris and purulence in the ventricle along with edema and transependymal flow of cerebrospinal fluid surrounding both ventricles. DISCUSSION: The patient was diagnosed with ventriculitis. Ventriculitis is an uncommon but serious disease. Early recognition and treatment are essential.
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spelling pubmed-78726072021-02-12 Male with Altered Mental Status Kondrat, Jason Ilyaguyev, Ben Stern, Jonathan Choe, Teresa Greenstein, Josh Hahn, Barry Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Images in Emergency Medicine CASE PRESENTATION: A 62-year-old male presented to the emergency department with altered mental status and fever. Computed tomography of the head showed enlargement of the left lateral ventricle. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated debris and purulence in the ventricle along with edema and transependymal flow of cerebrospinal fluid surrounding both ventricles. DISCUSSION: The patient was diagnosed with ventriculitis. Ventriculitis is an uncommon but serious disease. Early recognition and treatment are essential. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2021-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7872607/ /pubmed/33560974 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.12.50960 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Kondrat et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7872607/
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