Picture Quiz: An unusual cause of headache
Author(s) -
Samarth Shukla,
Vidhu Anand
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
acute medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-4892
pISSN - 1747-4884
DOI - 10.52964/amja.0090
Subject(s) - medicine , abnormality , pediatrics , ramipril , weight loss , headaches , surgery , psychiatry , blood pressure , obesity
A sixty-six year old lady was admitted after describing two ‘vacant’ episodes with collapse. She had also complained of chronic fronto-occipital headache and more than 10kg weight loss over the preceding three month period. She denied any gastrointestinal, respiratory or cardiac symptoms. She was a non-smoker and did not drink alcohol regularly. She had a past history of hypertension and hypothyroidism for which she was taking ramipril and thyroxine. On examination she appeared cachexic, but no other abnormality was detected.
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