Systemic hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and cerebrovascular disease treated with an antiplatelet drug, thiazide diuretic, ACE inhibitor and statin.
Pathology
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Disease/Diagnosis
This diabetic patient had a left orbitopathy, multiple cranial neuropathies, pachymeningitis and skull base osteomyelitis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The original source of the organism was an otitis externa that had remained clinically silent for 6 months.
Presenting Symptom
A 57 year-old Afro-Caribbean woman presented to the Emergency Department with a complete left sided ptosis, left internal and external ophthalmoplegia and no perception of light vision of the left eye.
Neuroimaging
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Date
2014-03-02
Language
eng
Format
video/mp4
Type
Image/MovingImage
Source
46th Annual Frank Walsh Society Meeting
Relation is Part of
Case presented at the NANOS 2013 Walsh Session, March 2