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Chapter 13 Cerebrospinal Fluid Flashcards

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Clear, colorless liquid formed in the 4 ventricles of the brain by secretion from the choroid plexus and a smaller contribution from the ependymal cells that line the brain and spinal cord

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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)

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What does CSF do

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  • Supplies nutments to nervous tissue
  • removes metabolic waste
  • Produces a mechanical barrier to protect and cushion the brain and spinal cord
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Central nervous system consists of

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Brain and spinal cord

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What 3 membranes line the central nervous system and what layer are they?

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  • Dura mater (outer layer)
  • Arachnoid mater (middle layer)
  • Pia mater (inner layer)
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CSF flows between which layers

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Arachnoid mater and pia mater

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How is CSF produced?

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By choroid plexus cells and ependymal lining cells (blood-brain barrier)

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Where does CSF circulate

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Through the ventricular system: cerebrum, brain stem, completely covers surface of brain and spinal cord

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Name the 6 structures

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From superior to inferior:
Skull
Dura mater
Subdural space
Arachnoid
Subarachnoid space
Pia mater
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Total volume of CSF in adults and neonates

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Adults: 85-150ml
Neonates: 10-60ml

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Pathologic alterations of CSF are caused in

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Infections (meningitis), cerebral hemorrhage, tumors, leukemia, syphilis, demyelinating diseases (multiple sclerosis), and other blood-brain barrier conditions

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Blockage of drainage of CSF can be caused by

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Tumor, inflammation, developmental malformation, meningitis, hemorrhage or injury

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Continued production of CSF causing an increase in pressure

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Hydrocephalus

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How many tubes are used for collection of CSF and where are they sent?

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3 tubes (additional sometimes submitted):

  • tube 1 for chemistry and immunology (can be frozen)
  • tube 2 for microbiology (keep at room temp)
  • tube 3 for hematology and cytology (can be refrigerated)
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If there is only a small volume of CSF what testing is priority?

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Micro and cellular

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What do you do if you receive a sample that is not labeled

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Run the test and then contact nurse. Sample can go bad and diagnosis could be contagious

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If blood distribution in CSF sample is even

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Hemorrhage

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If blood in CSF sample is uneven

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Traumatic tap

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Cause, and significance if sample is crystal clear

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Cause: normal
Significance: normal

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Cause, and significance if sample is hazy, turbid, cloudy, milky, viscous

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Cause: WBCs, Microorganisms, protein
Significance: meningitis, brain-blood barrier disorders, IgG production within CNS, mucin adenocarcinomas

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Cause, and significance of bloody sample

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Cause: RBCs
Significance: hemorrhage, traumatic tap

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Cause, and significance of xanthochromic sample

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Cause: hemoglobin, bilirubin, carotene, melanin
Significance: Old hemorrhage, RBC degradation, bilirubin

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Cause, and significance of clotted sample

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Cause: protein, fibrinogen
Significance: brain-blood barrier disorders, traumatic tap

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Cause, and significance of pellicle sample

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Cause: protein, clotting factors
Significance: tubercular meningitis

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Normal amount of WBCs and RBCs

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WBC: 0-5 per microliter (specifically lymphocytes and monocytes)
RBC: not present

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Cell counts are performed with

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Hemacytometer

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Normal ratio of lymphocytes to monocytes in adults and children

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Adults: 70:30
Children: 30:70

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Increased amount of normal cells

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Pleocytosis

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Pleocytosis of normal cells is valuable in determining the cause of what

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Meningitis

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29
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Increased amounts of neutrophils =

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Bacterial

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Increased amount of lymphocytes =

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Viral, tubercular, fungal, parasitic, syphilis

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Major clinical significance if reactive lymphocytes are found

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Viral, tubercular, and fungal meningitis

Multiple sclerosis

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Major clinical significance in neutrophils with granules less prominent than blood are found

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Bacterial meningitis

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Major clinical significance if neutrophils with lens that disintegrate rapidly are found

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Early cases of viral, tubercular, and fungal meningitis

Cerebral hemorrhage

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Major clinical significance if monocytes by themselves are found

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Viral, tubercular, and fungal meningitis

Multiple sclerosis

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Clinical significance if macrophages that may contain phagocytized RBCs appearing as empty vacuoles or ghost cells, hemosiderin granules, and hematoidin crystals are found

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RBCs in spinal fluid from hemorrhage

Contrast media

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Clinical significance if lymphoblasts, myeloblasts, or monoblasts are found

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Acute leukemia

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37
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Clinical significance if lymphoma cells with cleft nuclei are found

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Disseminated lymphomas

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38
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Clinical significance if traditional or classic plasma cells are found

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Multiple sclerosis

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39
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Clinical significance if eosinophils are found

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Parasites

Allergic

40
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Clinical significance if ependymal, choroidal, and spindle-shaped cells with distinct nuclei and cell walls are found

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Diagnostic procedures

41
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Clinical significance if malignant cells seen in clusters with fusing of cell borders and nuclei are found

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Metatastic carcinomas

Primary central nervous system carcinoma

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Neutrophils

43
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What is present?

  • Primarily in bacterial meningitis
  • often contain phagocytized bacteria
  • increased early viral, fungal, tubercular, parasitic
  • vacuoles may be present
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Neutrophils

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Monocytes (bean-shaped) and lymphocytes (one big nucleus)

45
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What is present?

  • viral, fungal, tubercular
  • Reactive ________ with viral
  • multiple sclerosis has 50 or fewer ______ per microliter, both normal and reactive
  • seen in HIV and AIDS
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Lymphocytes and monocytes

Blanks = lymphocytes

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Eosinophils

47
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What is present?

  • parasitic and fungal infections (primarily Coccidioides immitis)
  • medications and shunts into the central nervous system
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Eosinophils

48
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Pink to orange fluid supernatant - breakdown of Hb

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Xanthrochromia

49
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18 hours for histiocytes to mobilize and phagocytose RBCs

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Erythrophagocytosis

50
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Product of Hb metabolism

Intracellular or extracellular

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Hematoidin crystals

51
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Examples of true CSF hemorrhage

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Xanthrochromia, erythrophagocytosis, Hematoidin crystals

52
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Erythrophagocytosis

53
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Hematoidin crystals

54
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Reason for a traumatic tap

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Clipped blood vessel and doctor error

55
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How to determine if it was a traumatic tap

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  • total RBC count significantly higher in 1st tube than last
  • WBC and RBC counts reflect same ratio as PB
  • 1 to 2 WBCs for every 1000 RBCs
56
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Bacterial meningitis shows an increase in

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Neutrophils

57
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Viral, tubercular or fungal meningitis shows an increase in

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Lymphocytes

58
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Viral, tubercular or fungal shows an increase in

59
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Parasitic, allergic, drug reaction shows an increase in

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Eosinophils

60
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What is found if a spinal tap needle penetrates vertebral bone and draws back bone marrow or an infant or adult has osteoarthritis

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Hematopoietic precursors

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Arachnoid, ependymal and choroid plexus cells can be mistaken for

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Malignant cells

62
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Choroid plexus cells in CSF

- no borders/open borders between cells

63
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Arachnoid cell

64
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Reactive lymphocytes

  • mononucleosis/some hepatitis
  • larger than normal lymphocytes, larger cytoplasm
65
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Artifactual change in neutrophils

66
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What is the most common yeast organism and what stain is used

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Cryptococcus and you use India ink

67
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What Microbio exam do you use for bacteria and fungi

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Gram stain

68
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What Microbio exam do you use for Cryptococcus neoformans

69
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What Microbio exam do you use for tuberculosis meningitis

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Acid-fast stain

70
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What Microbio exam do you use for ameba Naegleria fowleri

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Wright stain

71
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What Microbio exam do you use to detect bacterial cause

72
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Which species?

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Candida albicans

73
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Which species?

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Cryptococcus neoformans

74
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Describe malignant cells

  • similar to what 3 fluids
  • ______ cells: less ____; looks like ___ ____
  • No _____ cells in CSF: presence of large _____ cells
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  • Plural, pericardial, peritoneal
  • carcinoma: cohesive; hematopoietic malignancies
  • mesothelial: tissue
75
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Maliquant cell must be differentiated from what 3 cells

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Choroid plexus cells, ependymal cells, arachnoid cells

76
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What CNS diagnoses involve hematopoietic malignancies

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  • Leukemia: ALL, ANLL

- high grade lymphomas: lymphoblastic, immunoblastic, Burkitt lymphomas

77
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Adenocarcinoma (cancer cells)

78
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Small cell carcinoma

79
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Acute lymphocytic leukemia

80
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Normal amount of protein

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15-45 mg/dL

81
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Damage to the brain-blood barrier such as meningitis and hemorrhage, elevated immunoglobulins such as multiple sclerosis, and degenerate neurological tissues are indications of

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Increased protein

82
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How to defect oligoclonal bands

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Protein electrophoresis

83
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Monitors multiple sclerosis

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Myelin Basic Protein

84
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Used to assess permeability of blood-brain barrier

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CSF/Serum albumin index

85
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Normal and abnormal ranges of CSF/Serum albumin index

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Normal: less than 9
Minimal impairment: 9 to 14
Moderate to severe: 15 to 100
Complete breakdown of barrier: exceeding 100

86
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What four bands predominate CSF in protein electrophoresis

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Transthyretin, albumin, two transferrin (one known as “tau protein”)

87
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Identifies oligocional bands that are present CSF but absent in serum in multiple sclerosis

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Protein electrophoresis

88
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Used as a marker for identifying a CSF leakage from the nose, ear, eyes or head/neck wound after injury

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Tau protein (asialo-tranferrin)

89
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Oligoclonal bands are seen in

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Multiple sclerosis, neurological disorders including Guillain Barre, encephalitis, neurosyphilis, and in neoplastic disorders

90
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Normal value of glucose in plasma

91
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Glucose test results seen in bacterial meningitis

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Decreased glucose and increased WBCs and neutrophils

92
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What cause a decreased glucose result

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Alterations of active transport of glucose across blood-brain barrier

93
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Lactate results and effect in bacterial, fungal or tuberculous infections

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Lactate increased and oxygen decrease of flow to brain tissue

94
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Lactate results in viral meningitis

95
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Abnormal glutamine results and symptoms/cause

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Increased glutamine when ammonia level increases

Associated with loss of consciousness or coma and liver disorders

96
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Immunologic test for neurosyphilis

97
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Immunologic test for bacterial and fungal organizations

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