Severe hypokalemia can have life-threatening complications such as significant muscle weakness, ileus, rhabdomyolysis, and respiratory failure. Here, we report a case of 33-year-old male who presented with worsening lower extremity weakness falls after smoking marijuana for six months. Initial labs showed severe hypokalemia. EKG was remarkable first-degree AV block, widened QRS complex, ST segm...

A 70-year-old outpatient presented with a chief complaint of sudden left leg motor weakness and sensory disturbance. He had undergone L4/5 posterior interbody fusion with L3-5 posterior fusions for spondylolisthesis 3 years prior, and the screws were removed 1 year later. He has been followed up for 3 years, and there had been no adjacent segment problems before this presentation. Lumbar magnet...

Spontaneous cervical epidural hematoma (SCEH) is an uncommon cause of acute nontraumatic myelopathy. SCEH presenting as Brown-Sequard syndrome is extremely rare. A 65-year-old man had motor weakness in the left extremities right after his mother's funeral. He received thrombolytic therapy under the impression of acute cerebral infarction at a local hospital. However, motor weakness of the left ...

Japanese encephalitis (JE) shows characteristic brain lesions, including bilateral thalamus, midbrain, internal capsule, basal ganglia, and occasionally involves an anterior horn cell. We encountered a case of a 44-year-old man who initially presented with encephalitis, which was finally diagnosed as Japanese encephalomyelitis with syringomyelia. The patient showed severe motor weakness followe...

introduction: the most common manifestation of disturbed neurological function following stroke is motor weakness. muscle weakness has been implicated as a factor underlying deficits in gait performance in subjects who have suffered strokes . the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between involved lower extremity isometric muscle strength and two functional tasks: gait ab...

9 G uillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a heterogeneous condition with several variant forms. These acute immune-mediated polyneuropathies are classified under as Guillain-Barré syndrome. Typically, GBS presents as an acute monophasic paralyzing illness preceded by an infection. Typical clinical features of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) are progressive, symmetric muscle weakness associated with abs...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)–motor neuron disease (MND) is divisible into 6 familial and 10 sporadic syndromes (1). Familial syndromes are also recognized in animals, namely, dogs, cattle, rats, and mice. This article is concerned with the most common form of ALS, sporadic Charcot ALS (SC-ALS). This form is of particular interest because it does not occur in any animal as a complete dise...