Baikuntha
baikuntha.bsky.social
Baikuntha
@baikuntha.bsky.social
Passionate Neurologist 🧠| Exploring the brain's intricate webs |Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology,IMS and SUM hospital, Siksha O Anusandhan University, Odisha, India
7/May 2023-Dec 2024
Comes with progression of right hemiparesis and vision loss.
Currently-
👀VA-5/60,6/60
R UMN facial palsy
R Profound Hearing loss
Power-Right UL and LL-4/5
And we do the imaging and get this...
December 16, 2024 at 6:40 PM
🧠 storming!
A 60yr old comes in with acute onset drowsiness,left 7th,9th,10th and 12th cranial nerve palsy. He has a history of weight loss,hematemesis,bicytopenia(anemia with thrombocytopenia). You order an imaging and see this.
December 4, 2024 at 5:00 AM
And the history is 43yrs/M history of chronic alcohol abuse-30yrs subacute onset symmetric LMN(atrophy+hypotonia+fx in medial thigh+areflexia-generalised-except triceps) quadriparesis(LL>UL;proximal>distal-LL and distal>proximal in UL) with hyperalgesia for 5 months.l While testing CN this was seen.
November 28, 2024 at 8:38 PM
It occurs even on infraorbital nerve stimulation!
November 28, 2024 at 8:36 PM
November 28, 2024 at 8:27 PM
That's what it is present on both sides and consistently! I will share another where can be seen even on infraorbital stimulation. But I have never seen this before. The history is interesting too!
November 28, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Hi sky!
Have you ever seen a bedside elicitation of the Blink reflex? I will be providing more history of someone can say if there is a special name for this reflex or not??? Bright minds of Sky inputs needed
November 28, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Anshupa Lake,Odisha,India. The skies in the dusk
November 16, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Moment of Zen
November 16, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Will CAR-T cells be used in MS anytime soon considering their amazing success in oncology??Honest opinions?? Have a look at this paper...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Have provided a short AV summary.
November 16, 2024 at 5:57 PM
❗ Biomarkers ≠Alzheimer Disease
Expert IWG in this paper provide a wonderful LEXICON for AD in this biomarker era.
doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.3770
🧠AD is a Clinico-biologic Construct and not a biomarker diagnosis.
My short summary.
#biomarkers
#Lexicon
#Alzheimer disease.
November 15, 2024 at 2:54 PM