Exam 2: CNS Flashcards
Reversible neuronal injury examples
Swelling of soma and axons
Aka spheroid
Spheroids can displace
Nissl bodies
Irreversible neuronal injury
Some shrinks
Pyknosis - nucleus necrosis
Eosinophilia
___ freq from acute hypoxia
Irreversible neuronal injury
Red neurons characteristic of
Irreversible neuronal injury
Astrocytes Function in
Gliosis
Activated astrocytes
Gemistrocytic astrocyte
Oligodendrocytes
Produce myelin in CNS
Oligodendrocytes can also be site for
Viral inclusions
Microglia
Phagocytes of CNS
Ependymal cells line
Ventricles and spinal cord
___ likes to infect ependymal cells
CMV
Viral infections: disease and inclusion
Rabies = negri body
CMV = owl’s eye appearance
Neurodegenerative diseases: name and inclusion
Parkinson’s = Lewy bodies
Alzheimer’s = beta amyloid plaques (tau protein); neurofibrillary tangles
Lipofuscin
Lipid accumulations
Increase in ICP can be due to
Blood
Pus
Tumor
Edema
Vasogenic edema
Disrupted BBB
Extracellular edema
Cytotoxic edema
Disrupted neuronal/glial membranes
Intracellular edema
Cerebral edema cause gyri to ___, sulci to ___, ventricles ___
Flatten
Narrow
Compressed
Hydrocephalus
Increase CSF volume in ventricles
Hydrocephalus can be due to
Disturbed CSF flow or resorption
Types of edema
Vasogenic
Cytotoxic
Hydrocephalus MC from
Choroid plexus tumor
Communicating hydrocephalus
Bilateral
Even
Noncommunicating hydrocephalus
Localized
Uneven
Under 2, hydrocephalus causes
Cranium expansion
Older than 2, hydrocephalus causes
Increase ICP
Enlarged ventricles
Half of all cases of hydrocephalus are
Idiopathic
Hydrocephalus Ex Vacuo
Due to infarction or neurodegeneration
Herniated brain tissue can shift where?
Across dural structures
Through foramen magnum
Herniation often follows
Increase in ICP
Types of herniation
Subfalcine (cingulate)
Transtentorial (uncinate)
Tonsillar
MC type of herniation
Subfalcine (cingulate)
Untreated hydrocephalus can cause
Respiratory arrest
Subfalcine herniation
Cingulate gyrus,under falx
Abnormal posturing
Coma
Transtentorial herniation
Uncinate fasciculus (temporal lobe) under tentorium
CN3 involvement, blown pupil, and diplopia can result from
Transtentorial herniation
Tonsillar herniation
Cerebellar tonsils through FM
Headache, cardiorespiratory arrest
Duret hemorrhage
Disrupts vessels in pons
Flame shaped bleeds indicates
Duret hemmorrhage
Duret hemorrahage can result from
Transtentorial herniation
Types of abnormal posturing
Decorticate rigidity
Decerebrate rigidity
Decorticate rigidity
Brachial flexion
Injury between cortex and red nuclei
Decerebrate rigidity
All limbs extended, flexed wrists
Injury in brainstem between red nuclei and vestibular nuclei
Mydriasis
Dilation of pupil
Anisocoria
Unequal pupil size
MC chiari malformation
Type 1
Type 1 chiari malformation
Mild
Low lying cerebellar tonsils
Downward extension through FM
Adults
Arnold-Chiari malformation
Small post fossa
Misshapen midline cerebellum
Downward extension through FM
Associated with myelomeningocele
Type 2 chiari malformation effects
Infants or in utero
Chiari malformations aka
Post fossa abnormalities
Tx for chiari malformations
Neurosurgical decompression
5th MC mortality in US
CVD
MC cause of neurological morbidity
CVD
3 mechanisms that cause CVD
Thrombotic occlusion
Embolic occlusion
Disruption of vessel wall
Stroke causes ___ to CNS tissues
Liquefactive necrosis
2 primary forms of stroke
Ischemic
Hemorrhagic
Ischemia
Lack of blood to area
Hemorrhagic
Injure CNS tissue + disrupt BBB
Features of stroke
Unilateral facial drooping
Difficulty speaking
Contralateral paralysis