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Dysarthria, difficulty in walking and dizziness.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Zoelen, M. A. D. Van Tekstra, Janneke |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | A 75-year-old Dutch woman presented with dysarthria, difficulty in walking, vertigo, headache and vomiting. Until recently she was an active and relatively healthy woman. In a few weeks, she had become bedridden by her vertigo. She had been diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica by her general practitioner five months earlier for which she used a prednisolone weaning schedule (7.5 mg once daily at presentation). On physical examination a dysarthria, nystagmus, broad-based gait and word-finding difficulty were observed. Laboratory results showed an erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) of 110 mm/h and C-reactive protein (CRP) level of 36 mg/l. |
| Starting Page | 59 |
| Ending Page | 66 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 25178774 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 72 |
| Issue Number | 7 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.njmonline.nl/getpdf.php?id=1481 |
| Journal | The Netherlands journal of medicine |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |