Case report of an 85-year-old man presenting with confusion, cognitive decline, and neurological symptoms following a fall.
Raises awareness of post-fall cognitive changes in elderly patients; leaves open generalizability pending larger studies.
Presentation of CaseAn eighty-five-year-old retired naval architect was admitted to the hospital because of confusion.He had been well except for a "heart attack" twenty years previously, from which there was full recovery. During the three years before admission it was believed that his "mind was slipping." Three months before entry he was treated for pneumonia at another hospital. On several occasions during the week before admission he failed to recognize his wife and family. Two days before entry he fell down several steps and became incontinent of urine. On the day of admission twitching of one side of . . .
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