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Neurology 4 Flashcards

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What is seen with vestibular disease?

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  • Peripheral or central
    • Head tilt
    • Circling and falling
    • Nystagmus
  • Most issues arise due to ear infections reaching middle ear
  • Brain itself is fine–info coming in is messed up
  • Signs will appear on the same side as the lesion​
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How do you differentiate between peripheral and central lesions?

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  • Peripheral
    • No CP def/pares
    • No depression
    • Fac/Horner’s? (runs through ear)
    • Nystagmus–horiz./rotational
      • Not variable with head movement
      • Eyes move together
  • Central
    • Tetra or hemiparesis
    • Depression (RAS)
    • Other cranial nerves
    • Nystagmus–vert too
      • Varies w/ head movement
      • Eyes move independently (dif. directions)
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What are the 4 causes of peripheral brain conditions?

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  1. Otitis media interna
  2. Feline idiopathic vestibular disease
  3. Canine geriatric vestibular disease
  4. Miscellaneous (congenital)
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Otitis media-interna

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  • Otoscopy/rads/CT
    • Red lining, tympanic membrane destroyed = infection entered inner ear
  • Antibiotics–systemic/topical
  • Infection in vestibular system = treat systemically as well
  • Clinical signs: scratching, shaking head
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Feline idiopathic vestibular disease

Canine geriatric vestibular disease

Miscellaneous peripheral vestibular disease (congenital)

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  • Feline
    • Lack of physio nystagmus
    • Tend to sway side to side
    • Fall over to one side
    • Recommend antihistamines–can increase blood supply in certain areas
  • Canine
    • Dogs seem completely normal on neuro/physical exam
    • Usually improve faster than cats
    • Cosmetic problems can remain
  • Congenital
    • Delayed development
      • GSD, beagle, dobes, siam., burm.
    • Signs by 3 m. and resolve over 3m.
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Central peripheral diseases

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  • Neoplasia (older animals)
  • Infectious
    • Viral (distemper)
    • Bacterial
    • Crypto, toxo/neosporum
  • Toxicity–aminoglycosides, metronidazole (dose important)
  • Hypothyroidism–can cause any peripheral neuropathy
  • GME
  • Thiamine deficiency (cats fed all-fish diets)
  • Trauma
  • Strokes
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Paradoxical vestibular syndrome

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  • Signs on OPPOSITE side of the lesion
  • Lack of inhibition on the vestibular nucleus on the side of the lesion in the cerebellum –> increased extensor muscle tone on that side of the body –> head tilt, circling, falling to opposite side (mimicking a vestibular lesion on the opposite side)
  • Animal has proprioceptive deficits on the side of the cerebellar lesion but vestibular signs on the opposite side
  • Lesion in the cerebellum is on the opposite side to that indicated by the head tilt, falling, and slow phase of nystagmus; it is on the same side as indicated by the proprioceptive deficits
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What does the cerebellum control? What are the common cerebellar signs (8)?

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  • Cerebellum: fine-tune muscle activity/maintains equilibrium

Signs

  • Wide based stance
  • Truncal ataxia (sways)
  • Dystmetria–improper measuring (over-stepping)
  • Intention tremor–head bob (eating/drinking)
  • CP and reflexes ok
  • Signs with SC tract damage
  • Decerebellate rigidity–hind legs flex up tightly
  • Shiff-Sherrington syndrome (front legs extended out, back legs floppy)
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What is associated with cerebellar hypoplasia in cats vs. dogs? What are the signs?

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  • Cats–in utero: panleuk (parvo)
  • Dogs
    • Congenital hypo/aplasia
    • Parvo
  • Signs–6 weeks
    • Trunkal ataxia, dysmetria, tremor
    • Non-progressive + may compensate
    • Definitive diag: CT/MRI/necropsy
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Give examples of the following:

Cerebellar abiotrophies

Cerebellar infections

Neoplasia

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  • Abiotrophies
    • Early neuronal death–disrupted metabolism
    • Almost every dog breed but rare in cats
    • Signs progressive (old animals)
    • Diagnose at necropsy
  • Infections
    • Distemper/FIP + other neuro/syst signs
      • Cerebral, seizures, facial nerve paralysis, vestibular nerve signs
  • Neoplasia
    • Primary–medullablastomas, gliomas
    • Secondary–wide variety
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Shaker dog disease–tell me all the things, including differential diagnoses

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  • Maltese– < 15kg
  • Tremors head + limbs
  • Worse with exercise/excitement
  • Not when asleep
  • Prednisone–2mg/kg
    • Respond very well, taper off
  • DD’s
    • Fear
    • Hypomyelination
      • Born w/o myelin–> whole body trembling
    • Tremorgens (toxins prod. by mold)
    • Toxins
    • Orthostatic tremor (large breed dogs)
    • Head bobbing
    • Old dog hind limb tremors
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Scotty cramp

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  • Serotonin deficiency (brain) +/- PG abnormality
  • Animal folds up in ball
  • Stiffen with exercise
  • Tryptophan/serotonin-increasing drugs effective
  • Prozac–selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
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Episodic falling

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  • CKC’s–hypertonicity with exercise
  • Clonazepam and time
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Hydrocephalus (general)

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  • Dilated ventricles of brain
  • Dec. CSF flow–cong, neoplasia, subarach. hem., meningitis
  • Inc. secretion (tumor choroid plexus)
  • Inc. pressure –> atrophy of surrounding cells –> dec. function
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Signs of hydrocephaly?

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  • Most congenital–toys + brachycephalics
  • Signs at weeks/months–progressive
    • Mental attitude–depressed/excited
    • Learning, seizures, blind, deaf
    • Tetraparesis–clumsy, uncoordinated
    • Strabismus–lateral divergent
  • Skull domed, fontanel’s open often
  • Acquired–signs of cause–FIP, toxo
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How do you diagnose hydrocephalus? What is the treatment?

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  • CT/MRI imaging
  • Ultrasound if fontanelles open
  • CSF–herniation
    • Do NOT collect CSF–> brainstem herniation from decreased pressure
  • Treatment
    • Shunts: CSF —> abdominal/jug
      • Tube runs from ventricles to abdomen
      • When brain gets to full, empties into tube –> abdomen –> reabsorbed
    • Dex–temp, dec. signs
    • Pred, diuretics, promethesol (temporary)
    • Surgery ASAP–control pressure and dec. possible damage to ventricles
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Brain neoplasia

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  • Primary–gliomas (20%) and meningiomas (45%–cats)
  • Secondary–range of mets
    • HAs, lymph (cats), carcino
  • Older dogs (> 7yr) and cats (8-10)
  • Signs depend on site/rate
    • Cortex = behavior, seizures, circling (af), vision/nasal (con)
    • Stem = depression, paresis, cranial nerve abnormalities; slow, no seizures
  • Diagnosis–imaging, CSF (biopsy)
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Treatment of brain neoplasias? Prognosis?

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  • Benign superficial (meningiomas)–surgery
    • Remove skull, scoop tumor out
  • Dexamethazone/mannitol to reduce edema
    • Take away inflammation
    • Temporarily dec. tumor
  • Radiation?
  • Prognosis–metastasize; nothing you can really do
    • Meningiomas 4m-1-3y
    • Gliomas (secondaries) 4-12m
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Brain herniation

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  • Space-occupying lesion
  • Decrease CSF outflow –> increasing intracranial pressure
  • Falx cerebri or tentorium cerebelli
  • Most severe when cerebellum pushed out of foramen magnum
    • Rapidly fatal (compress brainstem)
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What are the signs of a brain herniation?

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  • Underlying cause–CSF tap/volatile anesth.
  • Increased ICP:
    • Depression
    • Poor PLRs
    • Breathing abnormalities (cyclic)
    • Cranial nerve deficits
  • Herniation–acute, rapidly prog. tetraparesis (motor tract compression)
  • Coma
  • Respiratory arrest
  • Always look at ICP before anesthetizing animal w/ brain problems–can give steroids, block CSF prod.–>reduce swelling/pressure, THEN perform CSF tap after
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Diagnosis and treatment of brain herniation?

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  • Diagnosis
    • Clinical suspicion
    • MRI
    • Necropsy diagnosis
  • Treatment
    • Remove underlying cause
    • Dex may reduce edema + herniation
    • Manitol
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Cranial trauma

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  • Increased in cats
  • Dysfunction with:
    • Concussion
      • No morphological lesion
      • Transient unconsciousness
      • Confusion/ataxia for a few days
    • Contusion = focal hemorrhage + edema
      • More confused and ataxic
      • CP deficits
      • Unconscious longer
    • More severe hemorrhage
      • Meningeal (extracerebral) = cortex
        • Develop slowly, can remove
      • Brain vessels (intracerebral) = stem
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What are the signs of cranial trauma?

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Depends on site

  • Cortex
    • Decreased consciousness
    • Normal cranial nerves (menace + nostril stimulation)
    • Seizures
    • Contralateral hemiparesis
  • Brain stem
    • Decreased consciousness
    • Abnormal cranial nerves
    • Irregular respiration
    • Bradycardia
    • Abnormal PLRs–mydriasis
    • UMN signs–extensor rigidity
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What occurs when an animal is decerebrate?

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  • Unconscious
  • Forelimbs extended
  • Hindlimbs extended
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What is the difference between primary and secondary damage with cranial trauma?

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  • Primary
    • Primary damage to parenchyma and vessels from the trauma
    • No control over this
  • Secondary
    • Abnormal metabolic processes
    • Leads to decreased perfusion, increased ICP
    • Can be treated–make sure no complications arise
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How do you diagnose cranial trauma?

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  • History + physical + neuro exam
    • Cranial nerves
    • Pupils
    • Respiration
  • Stabilize, then take skull rads
  • CRI/MRI–intra vs. extracerebral
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How do you treat cranial trauma?

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  • Shock/life-threatening injuries = ABC (airways, breathing, cardiovascular)
    • Hetastarch/hypertonic–BP/ICP
  • Increased PaCO2 + decreased PO2 –vasodilation - increased ICP
  • Body < 30o – venous + CSF outflow
  • Soluble corticosteroids?
  • Deteriorating/severe–mannitol
    • MUST wait til animal is stabilized
  • Seizures–diazepam (best/safest), phenobarb, propofol (put animal to sleep–> brain works less)
  • Hematomas/wounds/deep fractures–surgery–prop + isoflurane
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What are the different prognoses of cranial trauma?

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  • Response to medical therapy in 4-6hrs–promising prognosis
  • Coma > 2d = grave prognosis
  • Irregular respiration + unresponsive bilateral mydriasis = poor prognosis
  • Euth–intractable seizures/resp failure
  • Coma score–monitoring and prognosis
    • Motor activity
    • Brain stem reflexes
    • Consciousness
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Narcolepsy–all the things

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  • Sudden attacks of sleep +/- cataplexy
  • Excitement
  • Can awaken
  • Classical sleep EEG
    • Autonomic imbalances
    • Orexin (sleep neurotransmitter), hypocretins
  • Amphetamines (Ritalin)–decrease excitement receptors
  • Antidepress–imipramine
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What are some conditions with multiple neurological signs?

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  • Rabies
  • Distemper
  • Parvo
  • Neospora
  • Herpes
  • Toxo
  • FIV encephalitis

30% neurotrophic, behavior +/- focal

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Feline ischemic encephalopathy

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  • Acute ischemic necrosis–Cuterebra migration
    • Accidental migration to brain
  • Non-progressive signs of behavior changes, seizures, unilateral blindness, circling, hemiparesis, head tilt
  • Usually recover, seizures may persist
  • Steroids not a good idea–can get anaphylactic rxn when larvae die
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Granulomatous meningoencephalomyelitis

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  • Inflammatory–cell-mediated
  • Middle aged, small breeds
  • Focal form–chronic
    • Resembles tumor–only 1 part of brain, slow-growing
  • Disseminated form–acute
    • Dangerous–can die w/in hours after appearing normal
  • Diagnosis–CSF, MRI (25% normal), histopathology
  • No treatment–1w-2m; 1 year seizures usually
  • Prednisone–1w-3m (doesn’t respond to pred)
  • Cytosine arabinoside (anti-metabolism), ciclosporin, procarbazine (anti-neoplastic agent)–1yr
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What are the signs in the following?

FIP

FeLV

Feline polioencephalomyelitis

Bacterial meningioencephalitis

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  • FIP
    • Dry form–CNS + eye signs
  • FeLV
    • Degenerative myelopathy
  • Feline polioencephalomyelitis (“Staggering disease”)
    • Staggers, circles, nystagmus, paresis, psychoseizures, BORNA
  • Bacterial meingioencephalitis
    • Rare–S. intermedius–hematogenous, direct spread
    • Fever, neck pain + rigidity, seizures
    • Diagnosis–CSF–pleocytosis, protein
    • Poor prognosis
    • Antibiotics–chloro? 6 weeks
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Steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis

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  • Cervical area–meningeal arteritis, hemorrhage, and inflammation
  • Young dogs < 2yrs–Beagles, boxers, Bernese, etc.
  • Acute onset, fever, neck pain–recurs/chronic
  • Peripheral neutrophilia + CSF pleocytosis + IgA
    • IgA levels raised in steroid-responsive meningitis (relatively level in bacterial meningitis)
  • Immunosuppressive prednisone
    • Should only be stopped 6 months after all findings are normal
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Dysautonomia

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  • Degeneration of sym + para ganglia
    • C. botulinum
      • Extremely potent
      • Antibodies against organism suggests animal has it growing inside them
  • Autonomic signs
    • Parasympathetic dysfunction
    • 3rd eyelid prolapse
  • 30% survive
  • Anorexia, wt. loss, obtundation
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What are the signs of dysautonomia in dogs?

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  • Dysuria
  • Distended bladder
  • Mydriasis
  • Absent PLR
  • Dry mm
  • Weight loss
  • Dec. tears
  • Dec. anal reflex
  • Dec. appetite
  • Vomit/regurg
  • 70% mortality
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What are the 3 types of deafness?

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  1. Conductive–from continuous infections
  2. Central–rare
  3. Sensorineural–cochlear congenital
    • Congenital
      • Pigment
      • Dalmations
      • Cats white coat + blue eyes
    • Acquired
      • Noise, toxic–antibiotics
      • Antibiotics, ceruminolytics, antiseptics (chlorhex 0.2%)
    • Presbycusis
    • Diagnosis–BAEP, euth/neuter–hearing aids?

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