Neurology Flashcards
Dose of Ativan?
0.1mg/kg
What would happen to the FVC for GBS? and what test are used to test for GBS? how is it presented?
Decrease/CSF first then electromyography
Days or weeks after infection/usually with autonomic dysfunction (tachy/arrhythmia/urinary retention)
What kind of protein would you find in the CSF of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
14-3-3 protein
Weber and Benedikt syndrome
Posterior cerebral artery—>CN III palsy
Young ppl have stroke, what to look for?
Hypercoagulable state/vasculitis
Pt has a stroke while on aspirin, come to hospital more than 3 hours, what to add?
Dipyridamole
Asymptomatic aneurysm under 5mm?
Leave it alone
Pt has a stroke with increased ICP comes in 5 hours after the onset, what to do?
Permissive HTN to perfuse the brain
Straight leg raise is testing for myelopathy or radiculopathy
Radiculopathy
What to give with acute myelopathy?
Dexamethasone
IV drug user with fever and back pain?
Epidural abscess
GBS has any sensory loss?
No
Age onset for frontaltemporal dementia
40-60
Symptoms of medial and lateral cerebella lesions?
Medial—>vertigo and nystagmus
Lateral—>ataxia/dizziness/sway to side of lesion
Signs of spinal cord compression?
Lower back pain at night/bilateral weakness and sensory loss
Dejerine-Roussy syndrome?
Thalamic pain syndrome—>severe burning pain follow thalamic stroke
Mononeuritis multiplex
asymmetric neuropathy with multiple nerves
associated with vasculitis
Low complement/purpura
Wallenberg syndrome
Lateral medulla infarction (PICA or vertebral)
Ipsilateral Horner/hoarseness/dysphagia
Ipsilateral loss of pain and temp on face and contra on limbs (similar to PCA)
Dizziness and unsteadiness
Hyperostosis of skull, what tumor?
Meningioma
Language deficits of Alzheimer’s
Transcortical sensory aphasia—>can’t understand complex linguistic structure
Decrease in fluency
Location of Lewy bodies
Intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies
Long term tx for MS?
Interferon beta/glatiramer
optic neuritis
Demylination of optic nerve Unilateral loss of vision/central vision loss or any other kind eye pain with movement Change in color perception MS/lupus Tx--->IV steroid
Vertebrobasilar artery occlusion
Vertigo (dizziness)
Straight leg raise test for?
Herniated disc
Vegetarian/bowel disease, think?
Subacute combined degeneration
UMN lesion/mental change