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In which demographic do sx of Ducheene Muscular dystrophy present?
males before age 6
Diagnostic criteria for CRPS (Budapest Criteria)?
Budapest Criteria:
At least ONE sx in 3/4 of these categories:
Difference between rigidity and spasticity?
What is Capgras’ Syndrome?
delusion that can be seen in paranoid schizophrenia in which the patient thinks a familiar individual (usually a spouse or relative) has been replaced with a body double or imposter.
WHich nerve runs through the mandible?
inferior alveolar nerve and mental nerve: supplies sensation to the lower lip
MOA of lasmitidan
Serotonin 5-HT-1F agonist
MOA of triptan?
5-HT1B and D agonist
MOA of -gepants?
CGRP antagonists
What chromosome is associated with narcolepsy?
6
Which second gen antipsychotic is associated with the greatest inc risk of seizures?
Clozapine
Antibody that is significantly higher in patients with MG + thymoma vs MG alone
Anti-striated muscle Ab
WHat medications can DEC valproic acid levels?
Enzyme deficient in PKU?
phenylalanine hydroxylase
Patient’s w/ DiGeorge(Velocardiofacial) Syndrome have 20x inc risk of?
Characteristics of this syndrome?
Schizophrenia
CATCH-22
Most common mets to brain?
LUNG (#1)
Melanoma
Breast
Multifocal Motor Neuropathy: Antibody and Treatment?
anti-GM1, IVIG (does not respond to steroids or PLEX)
What is hippus?
BPPV is due to canalolithiasis how?
otoliths separate from their attachments to the utricle and saccule.
Mcardles Disease: deficiency in ? due to?
myophosphorylase
mutations in PYGM gene
In McArdle’s disease, there is a phenomenon on EMG in which?
muscles actively having a contracture while undergoing EMG are electrically silent
Histology for schwannoma?
verocay bodies
WHat is the Monro Kellie Doctrine?
Sum of the volumes of brain, CSF, and intracranial blood remain constant. Any inc in one causes a decrease in 1 or 2 of the other.
Any role for antivirals in Bells Palsy?
Apparently there is a scale for Bells (House-Brackman scale) and it is only sometimes used for severe Bell’s (H-B 4 or greater)
Most common intraocular neoplasm in children? Assoc with what PE finding?
Retinoblastoma
Leukocoria