Brain Infections And Tunours Flashcards
What are the risk factors for Brian infections?
Immune compromised states e.g. AIDs
Inflammation due to disease
Poverty and deprivation
Which type of meningitis has these features:
- 50% fatality if untreated
- early antibiotics
- skin rash
- respiratory transmission
Meningococcal meningitis
What are the characteristics of Tuberculous meningitis?
- fatal
- rare except in HIV
- gradual onset
- headache
- Mortality of only 10% if treated early
Which meningitis match these characteristics:
- lives in the intestinal tract
- caused by mumps
- good prognosis
Aseptic Meningitis
What are the characteristics of Encepilitis?
- viral infection
- enters the brain from the blood stream, or can travel up the axons to the parent neurons
- illness with fever, muscle pain, mental change and focal change
Where does the HSV virus lay dormant in?
Lays dormant in the ganglion of the trigeminal nerve
What can be used to treat HSV, and what are its outcomes?
Acyclivor and reduces mortality from 70-30%
What bacteria’s are involved in bacterial meningitis?
- Neisseria meningitis
- Strepococcus Pneumonia
- Haemophilus influenza
- escherichia coli (E-Coli)
True or false bacterial meningitis can be found in cerebral spinal fluid?
TRUE
What are the impacts of tumours?
- Raised intracranial pressure (ICP)—> committing, headaches, loss of consciousness
- functional impairments with localisations
What GLAIL cells are involved in an intrinsic cerebral tumour?
- Astrocytoma
- Oligodendroglioma
- gliobia stoma
What is METASTASES?
Secondary transfer of tumour cells from elsewhere in the body.
What type of tumour do these characteristics relate to?
- visual and hormonal effects
- removal through endoscopy in nose
Pituitory Tumour
What are the characteristics of Acoustic Neuroma?
- slow
- hearing problems
What are the characteristics of Extrinsic tumours?
- mostly benign—> rarely recur if removed
- often meningiomas
- need surgery to remove
- raised ICP
- can erode skull
