Neurology Flashcards
Werdnig-Hoffman disease survival years
< 2
Werdnig-Hoffman disease sits or walks?
None
Which SMA can sit?
Type 2
Severe muscle weakness (flaccid paralysis) and hypotonia in which SMA
Type 1
Werdnig-Hoffman disease
Which SMA has near normal life expectancy?
Type III (Kugelberg-Welander disease)
Onset of SMA 2
6-18m
Duchenne muscular dystrophy Screening test:
Creatine kinase level
Early sign of Duchenne muscular dystrophy:
Inability to walk independently until age >18 month
Gowers sign indicates
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Calf psuedohypertrophy seen in
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment
Glucocorticoids
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is (inheritance type)
X linked recessive
How do Duchenne muscular dystrophy die?
Resp/heart failure in 20s
We suspect patient has cerebral palsy when:
Definite hand preference before 1 year of age + Persistent moro reflex
Management of CP
Baclofen and botulinum
Status epilepticus management
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How to tell if patient is seizing
Tachycardia
Desating
Fixed dialated pupils
Child absence seizure EEG
3 hz spikes
Child absence seizure treatment
Ethosuxemide
Benign ronaldic epilepsy EEG
Centrotemporal spikes
Infantile spasm EEG
Hyparrythmia