86 Pathology: Demyelinating Diseases + Prions Flashcards
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Overview
- What is the purpose of myelin within the CNS?
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2
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Overview
- What is the function of an oligodendrocyte?
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3
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Overview
- What kind of disorders are almost all diseases of myelin?
- Why?
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4
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Disease of Myelin
- What are the 2 broad groups of CNS disease that involve myelin?
- Which one is mostly from acquired diseases and which one is mostly from mutations?
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- Demyelinating Diseases of the CNS
- Acquired
- Improper formation/turnover kinetics
- Genetic
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MS
- Overview
- What kind of disorder is this labeled as?
- How common is it?
- Is it becoming more or less common?
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6
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MS
- Overview
- When does this present in life?
- Who is affected by it the most?
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7
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MS
- Pathogenesis
- What structure is lesioned in this disease?
- Why?
- What 2 general things are thought to cause this?
- What gene is associated with MS?
- What structure is lesioned in this disease?
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8
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MS
- Pathogenesis
- Who much does a first-degree relative increase your chance for MS?
- What HLA ALLELE is associated with a 3 fold increase in risk?
- Mutations in what interleukin genes are also associated with increased risk?
- What HLA ALLELE is associated with a 3 fold increase in risk?
- Who much does a first-degree relative increase your chance for MS?
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MS
- Pathogenesis
- What kind of cells initiate an attack against myelin?
- Which cells activate macrophages, and how?
- Which cells recruit leukocytes?
- What cells actually cause the demyelination?
- What kind of cells initiate an attack against myelin?
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10
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MS
- Morphology
- Is this multifocal or unifocal disease?
- What do the lesions look like grossly?
- Where are these common? (6)
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11
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MS
- Morphology
- What do the edges of the lesions look like microscopically?
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12
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MS
- Histology
- What cells are contained with active plaques?
- What evidence shows myelin breakdown?
- What other cells are present?
- Are axons present?
- What cells are contained with active plaques?
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13
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MS
- Histology
- What happens to the inflammation when a plaque is inactive?
- What cells are present?
- What happens to the inflammation when a plaque is inactive?
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14
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MS
- Clinical Features: Types
- What is CIS?
- What is RRMS?
- What is SPMS?
- What is PPMS?
- Which of the above is the most common amongst patients?
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MS
- Clinical Features
- Do patients usually recover fully from relapses?
- What are the unilateral visual impairments usually due to?
- What happens when the medial longitudinal fasciculus os interrupted?
- Where would a lesion be located if a patient lost voluntary bladder control?
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16
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MS
- Clinical Features
- What does the CSF of patients show?
- What is shown when the above protein is future examined?
- What does the CSF of patients show?
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17
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MS
- Clinical Features
- What is seen when using an MRI to view an MS patients brain?
- What does this show about the clinical manifestations of some plaques?
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18
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MS
- Clinical Features
- How do the cognitive features differ than other features of MS?
- What is the goal of most current treatments?
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19
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Demyelinating Diseases: Other
- When can immune-mediated demyelinating occur, aside from MS?
- Why is this thought to occur?
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20
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Demyelinating Diseases: Other
- What are the 3 patterns of post-infectious autoimmune reactions to myelin?
- For the not as devasting pattern:
- When do symptoms occur?
- How fast do symptoms progress?
- How many people die?
- For the more devasting one:
- What populations are typically affected?
- For the not as devasting pattern:
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21
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- What is neuromyelitis optica?
- What is central pontine myelinolysis?
- What gets this usually?
- What does it present as?
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22
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Demyelinating Diseases: Other
- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
- What virus causes this?
- What does it infect?
- When does initially infection usually occur?
- Why does it manifest later in life?
- What is characteristic about the neurological symptoms and signs of this disease?
- What virus causes this?
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23
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Demyelinating Diseases: Other
- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
- How do the lesions differ than lesions seen in MS?
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24
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Demyelinating Diseases: Other
- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
- What kind of cell at the center of each lesion?
- What happens to oligodendrocytes at the edges of lesions?
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25
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Demyelinating Diseases: Other
- Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
- What virus causes this?
- Does it progress quickly or slowly?
- What kind of tissue does it infect?
- When are patients usually infected?
- When do neurological signs develop?
- Why is this becoming more common?
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26
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Leukodystrophies
- How do PTs get this?
- What type of genes are mutated?
- What kind in inheritence pattern do most of these have?
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27
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Leukodystrophies
- How do these differ in terms of clinical presentation and age of onset, compared to demyelinating diseases?
- What do most of these look like on imaging studies?
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28
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Leukodystrophies
- What happens to the color and volume of white matter?
- Even though some patches pay present with pathology initially, what will always happen?
- What happens to the brain as these diseases progress?
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29
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Prion Diseases
- What disease is associated with Papua New Guinea?
- What disease occurs in sheep?
- What is the real name of mad cow disease?
- What disease occurs in deer and elk?
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30
Q
Prion Disease
- What is a normal functioning PrP usually rich in?
- What changes to make the PrP resistant to proteolysis?
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31
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Prion Disease
- What is notable about the stability/longevity of prions?
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32
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Prion Disease
- Creutzfeldy-Jakob Disease
- What movement disorder usually occurs with dementia?
- What subtle changes occur initially?
- How long does it take until PTs usually die?
- How common is this?
- What age are most individuals who get this?
- What would make these patients get CJD at an earlier age?
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Prion Disease
- Creutzfeldy-Jakob Disease
- What is the pathognomonic finding in CJD?
- What structures from within the neuropil and sometimes within the perikaryon of neurons?
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