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Neuropathology Flashcards

1
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How can infections get into the brain?

A

Direct Spread (Otitis Media)
Blood (Septicaemia)
Iatrogenically (LP)

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What can infections in the brain cause?

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Meningitis
Encephalitis
Abcess
Chronic Meningitis

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What are the Pathogens for different types of Encephalitis?

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Spinal Cord - Polio
Temporal Lobe - Herpes
Brainstem - Rabies

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What is Encephalitis?

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Infection and inflammation of the neuronal cell bodies.

Can lead to cell death and formation of inclusion bodies

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What is “chronic” meningitis?

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Different Pathogen

Causes Granulomatous disease, fibrosis, nerve entrapment

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How can you get an abcess in the brain?

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Via inner ear infection –> Internal auditory meatus –> temporal lobe

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7
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What are some consequences of meningitis?

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Systemic --> Sepsis
Subdural Empyema
Herniation due to raised ICP --> death
Infarction
Abcess
Epilepsy
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What is Prion Disease?

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Accumilation of mutated prion proteins which damage cell bodies.
This creates holes in the grey matter.

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How do you get Prion Disease?

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Exposure to Prions themselves from food, sporadic mutation, or can be familial

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What is a spongiform encephalopathy?

What do you get it in?

A

Prion Disease

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11
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What can Prion Disease Cause?

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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease

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What symptoms do you get with CJD?

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Memory Lapses
Mood Changes
Hypertonia
Loss of Interest
Incontinence
Clumsiness
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What is Dementia?

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An acquired global impairment of brain function, that does not cause a loss of consciousness

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What is Lewy Body Dementia?

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Caused by accumilation of misfolded proteins which aggregate and form Lewy Bodies.
Leads to loss of attention and alertness

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What are the types of dementia?

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Alzheimers
Lewy Body
Vascular Dementia
Picks Disease

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What is Alzheimers?

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Dementia caused by neuronal damage (forming Tangles and Plaques) and loss of neurotransmitters.
This leads to atrophy of brain tissue

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What is a plaque?

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Aggregation of amyloid with enlarged axons, dendrites and synaptic terminals

18
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What is a tangle?

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Tau proteins are hyper phosphorylated and twist together

19
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What is the survival rate of Alzheimers

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7 to 10 years

20
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Early signs of AD?

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Forgetfulness

21
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Later signs of AD?

A

Confusion

Agitation

22
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Can we treat AD?

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We can limit early symptoms and delay progression with AChE inhibitors

23
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What is Vascular Dementia?

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Dementia caused by a loss or problem with the blood supply to the brain
It can be multi-infarct, post-stroke, subcortical or mixed with AD

24
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What are the signs of vascular dementia?

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CVS risk factors
Memory is less affected early on
Problems with following instructions/cognition

25
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Can we treat V Dementia?

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We can manage the CVS risk factors to prevent progression

26
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What is Picks Disease?

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Fronto-temporal dementia caused by a build up of abnormal proteins
It has no treatment

27
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What are the symptoms of Picks Disease

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Get behavioural and personality changes (loss of inhibition) and speech difficulties

28
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What is a raised intracranial pressure?

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Sustained over 20mmHg

29
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What can cause a raised ICP?

A 
An abcess
Hydrocephalus
SOL 
Tumour
Haemorrhage
Infection
30
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What can happen in an enlarging SOL?

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Increasing ICP leading to Herniation

31
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What are the types of herniation?

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Subfalcine
Tentorial/Uncal
Tonsillar

32
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What are the benign tumours of the brain?

A

Meningioma

33
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What are some malignant brain tumours?

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Astrocytoma
Neurofibroma
Ependymyoma
Metastasis (most common)
Lymphoma
34
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Describe a subfalcine herniation

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There is a SOL on the same side, the cingulate gyrus is forced underneath the falx cerebri to the other side of the brain
This can compress the ACA and lead to ischaemia of the brain

35
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Describe a uncal/tentorial herniation

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The parahippocampal gyrus is forced underneath the tentorial notch by a lesion above it.
This can compress CNIII, the PCA and the SCerebellarAs

36
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Describe a tonsillar herniation

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Raised ICP leads to the cerebellar tonsils herniating through the foramen magnum of the skull and compressing the brainstem
Leads to death

37
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What is tonsillar herniation also known as?

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Coning

38
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What can happen secondary to a tentorial herniation?

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A duret herniation into the brainstem

39
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What is a lacunar infarct?

A

Less than 1cm
Commonly in the Basal Ganglia
Associated with Hypertension

40
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What is a regional infarct?

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An infarct in a cerebral or carotid artery

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