BB2 Facts Flashcards
Meningitis causes 6mo-60yrs
S. Pneumoniae, N. Menigiditis, H. Influenza
Meningitis causes ages 0-6mo
Listeria, E. coli, GB Strept
Meningitis causes age 60+
S. Pneumoniae, Listeria
TB meningitis involves what part of brain
Basal aspect with cranial nerve involvement
Most common cause of lymphocytic aseptic meninigitis
Enterovirus
herpes or mumps less likely
Most common cause of non-herpetic viral encephalitis
Arbovirus (seasonal)
Causes of herpetic encephalitis
HSV1 (most common), CMV, VZV
-Bilateral, asymmetrical hemorrhagic necrosis of the temporal lobes
Key microscopic pathological feature of rabies encephalitis
Negri bodies in purkinje cells or large pyramidal cells
Poliomyelitis
- What is it?
- What causes it?
- Microscopic pathology (key)
- Enterovirus that targets spinal cord grey matter
- Neuronophagia (dying neuron surrounded by microglial cells)
Most common causes of viral meningitis/menigoencheph
Eterovirus, herpes virus, arbovirus
Two main histological features of viral enceph
- Perivascular chronic inflammatory infiltrates
2. Neuronophagia
What receptor is involved in MOA of LSD?
5HT-2 post-synaptic receptor
List 3 treatments for LSD
- Ride the wave
- Support/reassurance
- Benzos to calm them down
-no chronic damage, but can unmask psychiatric vulnerabilities like panic, paranoia or depression
Clinical manifestations of LSD
- Unpredictable
- Micropsia, macropsia, derealization, depersonailization, visual hallucinations, synethesia (hear colors eg), euphoria/lability, ego fragmentation
Clinical manifestations of PCP
- Euphoria, peaceful floating sensation, disconnection from world, oblivious to surroundings
- Flat affect (Sz like), uncommunicative, staring gaze, rigid muslces
- Slurred speech, rotary nystagmus (arch of eyes), rolling gait, hand/feet numbness, depersonalization, distortions of body image/space/time, delusions, perceptual disturbances
- Large doses can be lethal: hyperacusis, amneisa, hostility/paranoia, excessive salivation without a gag reflex, muscle rigidity, increased BP & pulse, coma and convulsions
-recovery can take days