Flashcard 5 Neuro
presbyopia
longsightedness of old age
cataracts treatment
surgery
eye drops that may decrease opacity
symptoms:
- bilateral sciatica
- saddle anaesthesia
- urinary dysfunction
cauda equina syndrome
schwannoma
slow growing tumour of Schwann cells
haemangioblastoma
tumour of brain or spinal cord arising from blood vessels of brain or meninges
classic triad of symptoms epidural abscess
- fever
- back pain
- focal neurology (numbness/ weakness)
causes coma without focal or materialising signs without meningism
- intoxication
- hypoglycaemia
- pH imbalance
- anoxia/ ischaemia
- temperature
- infections
- metabolic
- epilepsy
spina bifida
defective closure of caudal neural tube
areas affected by posterior circulation stroke
- brainstem
- cerebellum
- thalamus
symptoms: contralateral: - paralysis of foot and leg - loss of function foot and leg - disturbed stance/ gait
anterior circulation stroke
chronic management of generalised tonic clonic seizures
sodium valproate
lamotrigine
epilepsy investigation
EEG
CT?
lamotrigine
anti epileptic drug
parkinsons + syndromes
- multi-system atrophy
- early loss of autonomic functions
causes of horners syndrome
damage to sympathetic nervous system
what would you expect to see on imaging of hydrocephalus
big third and lateral ventricles
symptoms:
- urinary incontinence
- gait disturbed
- quickly progressing dementia
normal pressure hydrocephalus
causes peripheral neuropathy
- diabetes
- injury
- viral infection
- medications
- alcohol
- smoking
meningism
- stiff neck
- photophobia
- N+V
anti-VGKC autoimmune encephalitis presentation
- frequenct seizures
- amnesia
- altered mental state
symptoms:
- droopy eyelids
- double vision
- no facial expressions
- problems chewing/ swallowing
- arm/ leg/ neck weakness
- slurred speech
- SOB
- fatiguable
myasthenia gravis
meningitis investigations
lumbar puncture
blood cultures
