[Case Report] 52yo with hand clumsiness after Chiari operation

This case report comes to you from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a huge teaching hospital that serves the Harvard Medical School. The 52-year-old female presented with clumsiness and paresthesia of the right hand that had persisted for several days. She also had a headache and three weeks prior to presentation had undergone a suboccipital craniotomy for a Chiari I malformation. To complicate things, there was a past medical history of migraines and a family history of a Factor V Leiden mutation. The identified diagnosis is one in which evidence is limited for aspects of management, and the topics of uncertainty and mentorship in medicine also arise in this discussion.

Guest
Galina Gheihman, MD D (Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School)
 
Hosts
Associate Professor Stephen Bacchi (Massachusetts General Hospital; University of Adelaide)
Haelynn Gim (Harvard Medical School)

Production
Produced by Stephen Bacchi and Mic Cavazzini. Music licenced from Epidemic Sound includes ‘Rockin’ for Decades’ by Blue Texas and ‘Brighton Breakdown’ by BDBs. Image created and copyrighted by RACP. 

Editorial feedback kindly provided by Dr Sebastiaan Lambooy.

Key Reference (Spoiler Alert)

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Isolated Cortical Vein Thrombosis [Neurohospitalist. 2023]

 

 

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