Introduction Aortic dissection is a rare and potentially fatal disease. It usually presents with severe chest pain radiating to the back, isolated back pain, or abdominal pain. 1 Atypical symptoms such as dizziness, vertigo, syncope, weakness or numbness are uncommon. The prevalence of neurologic symptoms in aortic dissection account for up to 42% of cases. 2 One study revealed that 29% of pati...

Abstract Background During the current pandemic, there is an increased incidence of neurologic/neuropsychiatric manifestations in patients with novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Neurologic may be coincident or result disease and its therapy. In emergency department, orientation clinician this issue crucial for accurate decision making to limit spread infection during neurologic treatment. This stud...

For many years, to reduce the crash frequency and severity at high-speed signalized intersections, warning flashers have been used to alert drivers of potential traffic-signal changes. Recently, more aggressive countermeasures at such intersections include a speed-limit reduction in addition to warning flashers. While such speed-control strategies have the potential to further improve the crash...

Purpose Takayasu’s arteritis is a chronic, granulomatous, large vessel vasculitis affecting the aorta and its large branches, and occurring most commonly in young women. It is the third most frequently diagnosed vasculitis in childhood. Generally, symptoms reflect ischemia to an affected organ or limb. A small percentage of patients develop neurologic symptoms such as visual disturbances, trans...

Brain metastasis is a rare and late manifestation of ovarian carcinoma. A 30-year-old woman initially presenting with neurologic symptoms was later found to have mucinous ovarian carcinoma. The patient had a 6 cm adnexal mass with multiple millimetric brain metastatic lesions. Following a surgical staging laparotomy procedure, the patient received brain irradiation and systemic chemotherapy.

We report what is to our knowledge the first case of severe isolated vertigo that developed after renal transplantation and was a manifestation of cryptococcal meningitis. Treatment with antifungal therapy resulted in the complete resolution of vertiginous symptoms. Immunosuppressed patients with an opportunistic infection of the central nervous system can present with extremely tenuous feature...

The incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections continue to increase throughout the world. Although neurologic complications are frequent in individuals with HIV infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), vestibulocochlear neuritis is still a relatively rare manifestation. We report the first case of vestibulocochlear neuritis occurring in an AIDS patient in Korea.