The Medical Media Review

Tag: Stroke

  • Neurology: A Clinician’s Approach (2016)

    Neurology: A Clinician’s Approach (2016)

    The idea behind Neurology: A Clinician’s Approach (2016) … is to group diseases in the way in which they appear clinically…. I recommend it to more advanced rotating third and fourth year medical students, particularly those with a serious interest in internal medicine, neurology or neurosurgery.

  • Stroke & TIA Mimics

    Here are the important stroke and TIA mimics: Systemic and metabolic insults: especially hypoglycemia, but also a very wide variety of other systemic insults such as infections (urinary tract infections, pneumonia) and toxins, all of which can cause re-expression of symptoms of old strokes. Peripheral neuropathies such as idiopathic seventh cranial nerve (Bell’s) palsy, peripheral…