Nine-year-old fainted daily for 5 months: How AI tools helped doctors diagnose a rare condition in record time
https://indianexpress.com/article/health-wellness/daily-blackouts-ai-tool-helped-doctors-diagnose-rare-condition-10168108/
Nine-year-old fainted daily for 5 months: How AI tools helped doctors diagnose a rare condition in record time
https://indianexpress.com/article/health-wellness/daily-blackouts-ai-tool-helped-doctors-diagnose-rare-condition-10168108/
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Tldr: The neurological condition in question was ‘Basilar artery migraine’, better known as ‘migraine with brainstem aura’.
It starts in the lower part of the brain called the ‘brainstem’, and causes temporary symptoms like dizziness, vertigo (feeling like the room is spinning), double vision, slurred speech, trouble hearing, confusion, and loss of muscle control, usually before the headache begins.
Of all the things I have hope for from AI, I find the possibility that the very common but unusual zebras will be recognized.
[I’ve heard prevalence in total of rare disorders at between 1 in 11 to 1 in 15 people.](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41431-019-0508-0)
So while each individual rare diagnosis is rare, having a rare diagnosis is super common.
Doctors with AI is a great thing.
People with AI thinking they’re doctors is Dunning Krueger syndrome.