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1 Consultant Neurologist, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, UK
2 Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
3 Neuropathology Unit, Department of Pathology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr M D Connor
Queen Margaret Hospital, Whitefield Road, Dunfermline KY12 0SU, UK; mconnor@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
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The care of the elderly physicians from another hospital asked us to take over the management of an 87-year-old man who lived alone. Other than osteoarthritis mainly affecting his left knee, surgery for prostatic hypertrophy four years earlier, a reducible right inguinal hernia and moderately high alcohol consumption, he had no significant medical history. He had smoked 15 cigarettes a day for many years. Remarkably, he had only used senna for occasional constipation and paracetamol for joint pain in the preceding few years. He did the Scotsman cryptic crossword daily.
He had attended the elderly care out-patient clinic about 10 weeks before admission complaining of poor balance and new onset of falling. He attributed the falls to tripping rather than poor balance, and had no associated loss of consciousness. Three weeks before his transfer to neurology, he had been admitted to the elderly care ward following a night-time fall. He
Relevant Article
Practical Neurology 2007 7: 209.
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