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Clinical- 8 Flashcards

1
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True or False: dizziness = vertigo.

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False

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What is dizziness?

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sensations of light-headedness, faintness or giddiness. NOT associated with an illusion of movement.

ILLUSIONS, MICHAEL. TRICKS ARE WHAT WHORES DO FOR MONEY.

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What is vertigo?

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The illusion that you’re moving but you’re not actually moving.

“Lucille #2”

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What happens in peripheral vertigo?

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lesions that affect the labrynth of the inner ear, or VIII

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What is central vertigo?

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lesions of the brainstem vestibular nuclei or their connections, possible froma cerebral Cx lesion

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QUICK FIRE: I’ll give a Sx and you tell me whether it’s peripheral or central vertigo. Ready?

Contant, less severe vertigo

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Central

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Nystagmus always present, unidirectional, never vertical

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Peripheral

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Tinnitus/heading loss often present

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Peripheral

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Usually has brainstem or cerebellar signs

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Central

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Verigo is intermittent, brief, and more severe

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Peripheral

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Nystagmus possible, can be uni- or bidirectional, can be vertical

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Central

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There are no intrinsic brainstm or cerebellar signs

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Peripheral

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Rarely is there tinnitus/hearing loss

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Central

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What is ataxia?

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incoordination or clumsiness of movement that s not the result of muscular weakness

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What is vestibular ataxia?

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gravity-dependent (only when walking, standing), incoordination from the same central and peripheral lesions that cause vertigo

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What is cerebellar ataxia?

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irrgular rate, rhythm, amplitude and force of voluntary movements caused by lesions of the cerebelum or its afferent or efferent connections in the peduncle.s, red nucleus, pons, or spinal cord.

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What is sensory ataxia?

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impaired sensation of propriocepton and vibratory sense form disorders that affect those pathways.

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True or False: There is NO vertigo, nystagmus and dysarthria in sensory ataxia.

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True

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Demonstrate the Dix-Hallpike technique (5 steps)

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  1. sit pt on table with eyes forward
  2. quickly bring them supine with head over edge of table (30-45 deg)
  3. repeat with head turned 45 deg to the R
  4. repeat with head turned 45 deg to the L
  5. observe for nystagmus or vertigo
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Positional nystagmus and vertigo are usually assoacited with lesions where?

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peripheral vestibular lesions

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What are the characteristics of peripheral nystagmus?

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tends to remit spontaneously (fatigue), reduces with repetition.

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22
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Caloric testing can test disorders from where?

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vestibuloocular pathway

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What are the expected results from COLD water caloric testing?

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Remember COWS (cold opposite, warm same)

Slow phase to irrigated ear, fast to opposite ear (side of nystagmus)

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What are the expected results from WARM water caloric testing?

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coWS

slow phase opposite of irrigated ear, fast to same side

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What are the causes for the FAILURE of nystagmus to form fromcaloric testing?

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unilateral labrynthine, vestibulocochlear n. or vestibular N dysfxn

26
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What is the most common cause of vertigo of peripheral origin, and is caused by canalolithiasis?

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Benign positional vertigo

27
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What are the Sx of BPV?

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breif episodes of severe vertigo, N/V, worse in lateral decubitus position with affected ear down,no hearing loss. can be peripheral or central Sx.

28
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BPV- Tx

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respositioning (epley) maneuvers that use gravity to move the canaloliths out of the SC canals and into the vestibule where they can be reabsorbed.

29
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Define: disorder that has repeated episodes of vertigo lasting minutes-days and accompanied by tinnitus and progressive sensorineural hearing loss.

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Meniere’s disease

30
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Meniere’s- etiology

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from endolympahtic hydrops, sporatic, men > women, 20-50 y/o, familial related to mutation in cochlin gene.

31
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Meniere’s- Sx

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tinnitus, heading loss, sense of fullness in the ears, vertigo, N/V. Recurring intervals from weeks-years.

32
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Menieres- clinical findings

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spontaneous horizontal or rotatory nystagmus, impaired vestibular fxn with caloric testing, low-freq pure-tone hearing loss.

33
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Meniere’s- Acute Tx

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symptomatic with antihistamines, benzos, other vestibule-suppressant drugs

34
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Meniere’s- management

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low-salt diet, diuretics, transtympanic insillation of gentamicin or dexamethasone.

35
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Define: disorder of spontaneous vertigo of no apparent cause that resolves spontaneously, causes NO hearing loss, and shows no signs of CNS dysfxn.

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Vestibular neuronitis

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Vestibular neuronitis- Sx

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vertigo, N/V up to 2 wks, recurring Sx

37
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Vestibular neuronitis- clinical findings

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pt wants to lie of side with dysfxnl ear UP, nystagmus with fast phase AWAY from affected side (always present)

38
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Vestibular neuronitis- Tx

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10-14 days of prednisone (antiinflamm) and a vestibulosupressant

39
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What are the 3 antihistamines used for vertigo?

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meclizine, promethazine, mimenhydrinate

40
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What is the 1 anticholinergic used for vertigo?

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scopolamine (remember this from pharm??)

41
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What is the 1 benzo used for vertigo?

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diazepam

42
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What are the 2 sympathomimetrics used for vertigo?

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amphetamine, ephedrine

CNS stuff

43
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Define: the most common type of tumor is an acoustic neuroma, but meningiomas and epidermoidal cysts can cause this type of tumor too. Close to V-XII from the braimstem.

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Cerebellopontine angle tumor

44
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Which AD disorder causes bilateral acoustic neuromas?

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NF2

45
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CPAT- Sx

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insiduous hearing loss, headache, vertigo, gait ataxia, facial pain, tinnitus, sensation fo fullness in the ear, facial weakness, unsteadiness.

See a trend here? V, VII, VIII affected.

46
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What are the 5 drugs that cause toxic vestibulopathies?

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  1. alcohol (>40mg/dL in blood)
  2. aminglycosides
  3. salicylates
  4. quinine and quinidine
  5. cisplastin (antineoplastic drug)
47
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What is the pathogenesis of cerebellar stroke?

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infarct in one of the 3 arteries that supplies the cerebellum (superior cerebellar, AICA, and PICA)

48
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What are the clinical features of cerebellar strokes?

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IPSILATERAL limb ataxia, lateroplusion and hypotonia

can also have contralateral hemiparesis

49
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Cerebellar strokes- Dx

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CT or MRI

50
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Cerebellar strokes- Tx

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brainstem compression indicates surgical decompression and resection of infarcted tissue.

51
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Cerebellar hemorrhage- pathogenesis

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hypertension; anticoagulation, arteriovenous malformation, blood dyscrasia, tumor, trauma

52
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Cerebellar hemorrhage- Sx

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sudden headache, gait ataxia, IL gaze palsy, IL peripheral facial palsy, IL corneal reflex depression

53
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Cerebellar hemorrhage- Dx

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DO NOT do an LP cuz of possible herniation. CT or MRI

54
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Cerebellar hemorrhage- Tx

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surgical evacuation

55
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Ataxia Telangectasia- pathogenesis

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autosomal recessive disorder; onset in infancy; results from loss-of-function mutation in the ataxia-telangiectasia mutated gene (ATM) which codes for a Ser/Thr protein kinase causing a defect in repair of dsDNA breaks

56
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Ataxia telangiectasia- clinical Sx

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progressive cerebellar atxia, oculocutaneous telangiectasia, sinopulmonary infections, lymphoid tumors

57
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Friedrich ataxia- onset

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autosomal recessive disorder; onset in childhood (avg age = 13); avg age at death is 40 yrs; displaces anticipation;

58
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Friedrich ataxia- mutation

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expanded GAA trinucleotide repeat in noncoding region of FXN gene → loss of function mutation in frataxin

59
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Friedrich ataxia- defect

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degeneration of dorsal root ganglia, large myelinated peripheral sensory nerve axons, corticospinal tracts, and dentate nuclei;

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Friedrich ataxia- Sx

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progressive gait ataxia, followed by limb ataxia, dysarthria, and sensory gait ataxia; knee and ankle areflexia, impaired dorsal column modalities; leg weakness; Babinski sign; pes cavus; kyphoscoliosis; chronic restrictive lung disease; cardiomyopathy; optic atrophy and diabetes mellitus

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