FLOPPY INFANT Flashcards
Floppy Infant?
Infant who is extremely HYPOTONIC at Birth and Early Life
Tongue Fasiculation at BIRTH
CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF
SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY TYPE 1
WERDNIG HOFFMAN DISEASE
TYPES OF SMA
🧠⚡ WD KW⚡
1 WERDNIG HOFFMAN DISEASES
2 DUBOWITZ DISEASE
3 KUGELBERG WELANDAR DISEASE
RAGGED DOLL APPEARANCE SEEN IN?
DOLL LIKE FACIES SEEN IN?
SMA 1
VON GIERKE’S DISEASE (TYPE 1 GSD)
Growth hormone deficiency
Characteristic features of WERDNIG HOFFMAN disease
Ragged Doll appearance
Frog like Posture
Difference between CENTRAL and PERIPEHERAL HYPOTONIA
Central HYPOTONIA
CAUSES:
🧠⚡Go! Charul - HIDE ⚡
✨ NEONATAL ENCEPHALOPATHY
✨ IEM- ORGANIC ACIDEMIAS
✨ CNS malformation
✨ Glycogen storage disorders
✨ Hypothyroidism
✨ Connective Tissue disorders: Benign Congenital HYPOTONIA
✨ Down’s Syndrome
Mixed Peripheral and Central Hypotonia
Lipid storage disorders
Causes of PERIPHERAL HYPOTONIA
✨ Anterior Horn Cell diseases - SMA, POLIO
✨ Neuropathy- GBS
✨ NM JUNCTION - Transient Neonatal Myasthenia, OP Poisoning, Snake Bite
✨ Muscle : Muscular dystrophies
Spinal Muscle Atrophy presents at what age?
< 1 years
Infancy
RISDIPLAM Used in
Oral management of SMA
ORAL SPLICING MODIFIER
Corrects SMN2
NUSINERSIN
USE
ROUTE
Use SMN1
ROUTE: INTRA THECAL
Gullian Barre Syndrome
🧠⚡2 Gu-Baare : Left together ➡️ ascend upwards⚡
✨ Ascending symmetrical paralysis
✨ Axonal degeneration and Demyelination
✨ Respirator Failure
🧑🏻⚕️ Clinical Features of GBS
🧠⚡ABCD ⚡
✨ ABCD: AlBumino-Cytological Dissociation
✨AFP
✨ Bladder incontinence
✨ Cranial Nerve Palsies
✨ DTR lost
LAUNDRY’S PARALYSIS seen in
GBS