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A short film about how under-cooked pork led to grandma’s seizure & broken hip. Medspired by our spot diagnosis 🔍 on Instagram.

Time stamps:

0:00 - Clinical Vignette
0:58 - LF's HPI
1:23 - LF goes to Mexico
2:31 - Early symptoms
3:07 - What's that in her poop?
3:31 - The fall
4:15 - ER triage & physical exam
5:23 - Clinical reasoning
6:18 - Differential diagnosis
7:33 - Diagnostics
8:14 - Empiric treatment & results
9:17 - Radiology results
10:18 - Pork tape worm/ taenia solium
11:00 - Pigs & humans
11:25 - Taeniasis / Life cycle
12:47 - U.S. epidemiology
13:55 - Cysticercosis and Neurocysticercosis
15:43 - Auto-infection
16:32 - Taeniasis vs. Cysticercosis/ Neurocysticercosis
17:37 - Endemicity of taenia solium
18:13 - Treatment
19:32 - LF's long-term prognosis
20:05 - Geriatric syndromes
20:45 - 4 tips on preventing parasite infection
21:15 - Bonus outro

Freezing kills parasites:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Hand washing:
https://www.cdc.gov/hygiene/personal-...

MRI of treated Neurocysticercosis:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/M...

Original hip X-ray:
https://quiz.jbjs.org/an-81-year-old-...

Clinical symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of neurocysticercosis:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

World Health Organization on Taenia solium Taeniasis/cysticercosis:
https://www.paho.org/en/topics/taenia...

Addtional neurocysticercosis Imaging:
https://radiopaedia.org/articles/neur...

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