Atorvastatin treatment in a patient with post-traumatic hydrocephalus: a case report
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Clinical treatment of post-traumatic hydrocephalus (PTH) is limited to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) extracranial shunting, and research on noninvasive treatment is still lacking. In a follow-up study of a patient with PTH, atorvastatin treatment was beneficial in controlling hydrocephalus and promoting neurological recovery. METHOD: A 29-year-old male patient with traumatic brain injury (TBI) was found to have progressive hydrocephalus and presented with symptoms of decreased spontaneous speech and delayed functional recovery. We added oral treatment with 20 mg/day atorvastatin and followed up hydrocephalus with head CT every two months. RESULTS: The span of the third ventricle decreased by 21%, Evan's index fell by 16%, and the Fugl-Meyer motor score was up from 17/100 to 56/100. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment score was modified from 15/30 to 23/30. CONCLUSION: The use of atorvastatin in the patient may improve the imaging results and benefit the patient functionally.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".