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65M with Recurrent CVA with visual hallucinations and k/c/o pulmonary Koch’s

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 A 65-year-old male patient with known case of recurrent CVA presented with complaints of seen the faces, increased appetite and urinary incontinence since 2 months Visual Hallucinations are sudden in onset associated with the ringing sensation in ears and hearing voices from surroundings Patient was apparently a symptomatic six years back then he developed generalised weakness and giddiness for which he went to local doctor and diagnosed with diabetes and on OHA, then few months later he diagnosed with hypertension and on atenolol 50mg since 3yrs History of first CVA attack 5 years back for which she went to hospital and managed conservatively and on dual antiplatelet TS for few weeks. Then 4 years back he developed low-grade fever associated with productive cough and generalised weakness. For which he was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis and on ATT for 6 months. Then he developed second attack of CVA 8 months back for which he took some herbal medication for 3 months and rec...

DISSERTATION 2020-2022.

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DISSERTATION  Dr. Saicharan Kulkarni pgy1 ( 2020 ) TITLE OF THE TOPIC :   CLINICO-RADIOLOGICAL PROFILE, RISK FACTORS AND OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH MOTOR WEAKNESS BRIEF RESUME OF THE INTENDED WORK Problem Representation  1)The repercussions of paralysis/weakness are enormous, both personally to the individual and to their family; and have huge economic costs to society. Paralysis takes many forms with multiple disorders causing paralysis, and multiple body systems often affected. (1,)   2) Motor learning is considered crucial for rehabilitation in general. In stroke, motor learning does not refer to the acquisition of new skills, but to the re-learning process of a previously acquired movement pattern .(2)   3) 3.  Though both clinical evaluation and MRI are complimentary in detection and precise localization of the level of lesion in patients with cervical myelopathy, there is paucity of data comparing segment specific clinical features with the MRI abnorm...