Flashcard 13 Neuro
simple focal seizure management
lamotrigine
seizure clinic
cataracts causes/ risk factors
ageing family history smoking excessive alcohol UV exposure lack of vitamins diabetes long term steroids
primary open angle glaucoma treatment
eye drops:
- B-blockers
- prostaglandin
- trabulectomy surgery
acute closed angle glaucoma symptoms
- pain
- blurred vision
- N+V
- redness of eye
- fixed mid-dilated pupil
- increased IOP
- hard eyeball
what is leaking in intermediate uveitis
cells and proteins
hyperopia
long sightedness
most common cause of irreversible blindness world wide
primary open angle glaucoma
cluster headache - episode specific abortive treatments
100% O2
subcutaneous sumatriptan
prophylactic SUNCT treatment
- lamotrigine
- topiramate
- gabapentin
- carbamazepine
management trigeminal neuralgia
prophylactic - carbamazepine
- oxycarnazepine
surgical - decompression
- glycerol ganglion injection
giant cell arteritis investigations
temporal artery biopsy
inflammatory markers in blood
anti-VEGF
anti vascular endothelial growth factor
which would stimulate new blood vessel production
lateral tongue bite
tonic clonic seizure
diagnose:
PMH: high alcohol
low sleep
symptoms: - drop things in morning
- brief limb jerks
juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
main causes cardiogenic syncope
- arrythmias
- heart block
- aortic stenosis
