International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
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Department of Medicine, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Florida, USA

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• Case Study   
  A Curiously Unusual Cause for Weakness in a Geriatric Patient
  Author(s): Mercedes Malone*, Nannette Hoffman, Christopher Bray, Brittnay Puebla and David Rtichie
  
  Lower extremity weakness with reversible or medical etiologies is sometimes overlooked in the elderly patient. There are various causes of increased falls and weakness in the elderly population. Some causes of increased falls vision disturbances, impaired balance due to otolith dysfunction, arthritic-related immobility and lower extremity neuropathy. Clinicians should consider rarer neurological etiologies such as Guillain-Barre and transverse myelitis as part of the differential diagnosis. We present a complex patient case with multiple admissions for progressive weakness and falls without a clear etiology. This patient case presented a diagnostic challenge and eventually no unifying diagnosis was causative. The patient had various diagnostic tests suggestive of occult infection from Lyme disease serology, tuberculosis, Propionibacterium acnes and stool campylobacter.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2329-9096.24.S26.005

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