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Epilepsy and sleep disorders, headache Flashcards

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Weight loss is a side effect of treatment for

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Topiramate

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2
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Topiramate is not given to and epilepsy patient with

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kidney stones

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Phenorbarbitone is not given to a patient with

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dementia, because ir affects higher nervous activity

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4
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Drug of choice for convulsive status epilepticus

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benzodiazepine

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5
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If benzodiazepine didn’t work we use

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phenytoin

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If benzodiazepine and pheytoin didn’t work we use

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anaesthesia with propofol or pentobarbital

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7
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First-line treatment for a patient with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

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valproate

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8
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Antiepileptic used exclusively for absence

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ethosuximide

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9
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can riluzole be used for epilepsy?

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No

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10
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Generalised epileptic seizures are

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Absence
Myoclonic + generalised tonic-clonic

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11
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what to use to break status epilepticus

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Diazepam

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Todd’s Paresis

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Transient neurological impairment, usually weakness contralateral to the epileptic focus

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13
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Absence seizure drugs

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ethosuximide (only for that), valproate

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14
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Can aggravate withdrawal seizures

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Carbamazepine

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15
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type of seizure that looks luke sudden, rapid spasms or convulsions of the upper or lower limbs, with not loss of consciousness, can also cause a fall

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Myoclonic seizures

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What happen with carbamazepine and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

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Carbamazepine worsens juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

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17
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Drug for focal symptomatic epilepsy

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Carbamazepine

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18
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Drug for juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

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Valproate, Lamotrigine

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19
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Drug for petit-nale seizure

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ethosuccimide

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20
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22 years old. Has generalized seizure after a sleepless night. Recently things have been falling out of her hands in the morning

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Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

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21
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What to use when recording a EEG in a patient with epilepsy

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Hyperventilation

22
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18 years old epipepsy repeatedly loses things

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Myoclonus. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

23
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Drug juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

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valproate,lamotrigine

24
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Drug for pregnant woman having seizure

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Magnesium sulphate

25
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24 years old had epileptic convulsion on right side. Weakness on the left side

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Todd’s paresis

26
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Patients retains consciousness, there are rapid jerks that causes him to fall what is it

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myoclonic epilepsy

27
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Type of headache of a patient that has headaches mainly at night, on one side of the face, with a runny nose and red eyes

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Headache in raphalas

28
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treatment of intracranial hypotension

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lying down and hydratation

29
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Treatment for Horton’s headache

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Sumatriptan s.c

30
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Short-term prevention of horton’s headache

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Corticoesteroids

31
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Drug for tension headache

32
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Drug for paroxymal haemicraina

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Indomethacin

33
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Medicine for a 24 years old female with migraines accompained by vomiting

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Sumatriptan nasal spray

34
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Drugs for migraine prophylaxis

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Antiepileptics
Antidepressants
Calcium antagonist

35
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The most unilateral headache is

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Horton’s headache

36
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Triptans type of drug

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Serotonergic receptor agonist

37
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Female cook takes contraceptives and complains of headaches for several weeks. What does she have

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Idiopathic intracranial hypertension

38
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Type of headache in a lady with a headache and a red eye

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Paroxysmal haemicrania

39
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Drug of paroxysmal haemicrania

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Indomethacin

40
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Visual field loss in migraine aurea problem in

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Occipital cortex

41
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16 years old strange aura subsides after 23-30 minutes, the occipital headache

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Basilar migraine

42
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O2 as a therapy in which headache

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headache in raphalas

43
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Unilateral loss of vision that is reversible and followed by headache

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Retinal migraine

44
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Structures that enable consciousness

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Lateral prefrontal cortex
Posterior parietal cortex
Thalamus

45
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Treatment of acute migraine attacks

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Analgesics
Specific medicines that ends in triptansi
Antiemetic (metoklopramid, Domperidon)

46
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Differential diagnosis between migraine and tension-type headache

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Migraine: recurrent episodes, nausea, sensitivity to light with normal neurological status
Tension-type headache: bilateral headache, normal neurological status

47
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Drug patient with angina and migraine

48
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Headache and increased sedimentation

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Temporal arteritis

49
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Visual field loss in migraine with aura is due to disturbance in

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Occipital cortex

50
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How long does an episode of headache last in raphalas

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15 minutes to 3 hours

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