Conversive gait disorder: you cannot miss this diagnosis

Conversive gait disorder: you cannot miss this diagnosis.

Bizarre, purposeless movements and inconsistent findings are typical of conversive gaits. The objective of the present paper is to review some phenomenological aspects of twenty-five consecutive conversive gait disorder patients. Some variants are typical - knees give way-and-recover presentation, monoparetic, tremulous, and slow motion - allowing clinical diagnosis with high precision.

Hereditary angioedema in childhood: a challenging diagnosis you cannot afford to miss.

Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare inherited disease that is often difficult to diagnose. We report a case of a 9-year-old boy with a spontaneous mutation causing HAE, diagnosed after a life-threatening episode of angioedema of the head and upper respiratory tract after a 5-year history of recurrent skin swellings and abdominal pain leading to several hospital admissions. The aim of this rep...

Turner syndrome: do not miss this diagnosis.

0882 doi:1 As a pediatric nurse, have you ever wondered whether you're missing the diagnosis of a patient? Have you cared for a young girl who has short stature and frequent ear infections or an adolescent girl without breast tissue? Would you be concerned? If so, would you consider the diagnosis of Turner syndrome? It may be problematic for the pediatric nurse to identify this condition due to...

Gait Examination; A Valuable Tool for Neurological Evaluation in Conversive Gait Disorder.

Acta Neurologica Taiwanica Vol 24 No 4 December 2015 Dear editor, Ayaz et al. well presented a case with unilateral foot drop who perfectly managed by the diagnosis of conversion disorder. They elucidated the issues regarding the diagnostic evaluation of a patient with conversive symptoms. According to their description, their patient categorized as a conversive gait disorder which was not spec...

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