Buzzwords Flashcards
Marker raised in muscular dystrophy
Raised CK
Woodt texture muscle swelling
Duchenne or becker MD
Fluctuating cognitive deficit
Lewy body or delirium
Xanthochromic lumbar punture
SAH
What is cogwheel rigidity
Tremor superimposed on rigidity
REM disturbance
Lewy body or PD
Pain on loud noise
Facial nerve palsy
Inflammatory myopathy with poor response to steroids
Inclusion body myositis
Leg symptoms (e.g. leg weakness) and midline shift
Falcine herniation
Back pain worse on coughing
Slipped disc
Headache worse on coughing
Pituitary fossa issue
Myalgia + myositis + myoglobulinaemia/uria
Rhabdomyolysis (can lead to DIC and acute renal failure)
Weakness and frontal balding and cataracts and ptosis
Myotonic dystrophy (onset 30s, positive family history)
Migraine prophylaxis
First line: propanolol, topiramate or amitryptiline
Second line: valproate, pizotifen, gabapentin, pregabalin
If one drug doesn’t work by 4/12 try another
This palsy is associated with should dystocia
Erbs palsy
+ve simmonds test
Achilles tendon rupture
High stepping gait and romberg’s positive
Cervical myelopathy
Racoon or panda eyes occur with which fracture
Fracture of the anterior fossa
Battle sign is seen in which fracture?
Fracture of middle cranial fossa - mastoid process of temporal bone
Mesocortical dopamine hypoactivity
Negative and cognitive symptoms in schizophrenia
Subcortical dopamine hyperactivity
Psychosis
What is the tuberoinfundibular pathway involved in?
Prolactin release
What is the nigrostriatal pathway responsible for?
Extra pyramidal movements
What is the mesolimbic system responsible for? (often called the mesolimbic system)
Motivation and reward
Which dopamine pathway is dysregulated in schizophrenia?
The mesolimbic (subcortical/mesocortical)
Mesolimbic dopamine blockade
Depression
Mesolimbic dopamine agonism
Psychosis
Which atypical causes the most weight gain?
Olanzapine
How often do you monitor clozapine levels?
Weekly for the first 6 months
Fortnightly for the next 6 months
Then every 4 weeks after that, and one month after discontinuation
What is the limbic system responsible for?
M2OVE Motivation Memory Olfaction Visceral afferents Emotion
Reduced frontal lobe volume (and grey matter), enlarged lateral ventricles, reduced grey matter in the temporal cortex
Schizophrenia
Brain changes seen in schizophrenia?
Reduced frontal lobe volume (and grey matter), enlarged lateral ventricles, reduced grey matter in the temporal cortex.
What is thought blocking?
Abrupt and complete interruption of stream (strongly associated with schizophrenia)
Difference between flight of ideas and knights move thinking
Flight of ideas - ideas are connected
Knights move thinking - no link
Seen in bipolar during manic phase
Treatment for EPSE
Procylcidine
This part of the brain is involved in normal responses to threat
Amygdala
What does the pre-frontal cortex do?
Dampens down amygdala response to threat (fewer connections less effective)
What is Beck’s triad?
Negative feelings about self, world and future
Treatment of OCD
SSRI or clomipramine (TCA)
Side effect of NMDA antagonists?
Psychotic symptoms
Treatment of alcohol withdrawal
use chlordiazepoxide ( 30mg QDS, 25mg QDS, 20 mg QDS, 15mg QDS, 10mg QDS, 10mg TDS, 10mg BD, 10mg OD - nocte)
When do alcohol seizures occur?
48 hours
When does delirium tremens present?
48-72 hours
Which types of dementia would you see eosinophilic inclusions in?
Lewy body and PD
Treatment of hypertensive crisis?
Phentolamine infusion
Who do you need to avoid TCAs in?
Need to avoid in old people, people with suicidal intent and patients with cardiac problems
How does a blow-out fracture present?
Can’t look up and double vision
Tear drop or “blood level” in sinus
Blow out fracture
Failure to adduct and nystagmus in abducting eye
Internuclear ophthalmoplegia - issue with medial longitudinal fasciculus
Curtain coming down - less than 5 minutes
Amaurosis fugax
Curtain coming down (partial) longer than 5 minutes
Retinal detachment
Loss of red reflex, eye red on ophthalmoscopy
Haemorrhage
How would a pontine issue present?
Pinpoint pupils
How does a transcalcarine fracture present?
Dilated pupils
Down and out, dilated
Damage to CN3
Down and out, not dilated
Diabetes
Roth spots (retinal haemorrhages with white or pale centre)
Infective endocarditis
Scrambled egg/ yolk appearance of the macula
Best disease
USS shows snowstorm appearance, frogspawn, grape like
Hydatidiform mole
Doughy abdomen
Placenta accreta (insertion of placenta into myometrium post endometrial ablation) need to treat with C-section, also remember to give contraception
Fetal distress and loss of engagement, previous C-section or surgery
Uterine rupture