Acute-on-Chronic Subdural Hematoma Secondary to Falls Due to Alcoholism

The authors present a case of a 58-year-old male who is a daily drinker, experiencing bitemporal headaches starting one week prior to seeking medical attention. The patient’s physical examination and vital signs exhibited no irregularities. Imaging studies revealed an acute-on-chronic left subdural...

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Autores principales: Iyer, Aditi, Killian, Morgan, Stead, Thor S, Mangal, Rohan, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9588308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36299932
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29503
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description The authors present a case of a 58-year-old male who is a daily drinker, experiencing bitemporal headaches starting one week prior to seeking medical attention. The patient’s physical examination and vital signs exhibited no irregularities. Imaging studies revealed an acute-on-chronic left subdural hematoma but no intracranial arterial thrombosis or significant stenosis. The patient was managed conservatively due to his intact mental status and did well. The authors discuss alcohol use as a predisposing factor for intracerebral hemorrhage due to the increased risk for head trauma.
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spelling pubmed-95883082022-10-25 Acute-on-Chronic Subdural Hematoma Secondary to Falls Due to Alcoholism Iyer, Aditi Killian, Morgan Stead, Thor S Mangal, Rohan Ganti, Latha Cureus Emergency Medicine The authors present a case of a 58-year-old male who is a daily drinker, experiencing bitemporal headaches starting one week prior to seeking medical attention. The patient’s physical examination and vital signs exhibited no irregularities. Imaging studies revealed an acute-on-chronic left subdural hematoma but no intracranial arterial thrombosis or significant stenosis. The patient was managed conservatively due to his intact mental status and did well. The authors discuss alcohol use as a predisposing factor for intracerebral hemorrhage due to the increased risk for head trauma. Cureus 2022-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9588308/ /pubmed/36299932 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29503 Text en Copyright © 2022, Iyer et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_sort acute-on-chronic subdural hematoma secondary to falls due to alcoholism
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9588308/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29503
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