Online MedEd Flashcards
Immediate Treatment for cluster headaches
O2
Prophylaxis for cluster headaches
Ca2+ channel blockers such as verapamil
Abortive treatment for migrane
mild: NSAIDs
severe: triptans
Prophylaxis for migrane
Propranolol
Anticonvulsants: valporic acid, topiramate
Diagnosis technique of intracranial hypertension after negative CT scan.
Lumbar puncture with pressure more than 25 mmH2O
Treatment of intracranial hypertension.
1) Acetazolamide
2) Serial lumbar punctures
3) VP (ventriculoperitoneal) shunt
Treatment of trigeminal neuralgia
Carbamazepine
Birth trauma bleed that does not cross suture lines.
Cephalohematoma (a subperiosteal hemorrhage)
Birth trauma bleed that does cross suture lines.
Caput succedaneum (edema/hematoma above periosteum)
Lamber-Eaton syndrome associated with _____
Small cell lung cancer
Myasthenia gravis is associated with _____
Thymoma
Diagnosis:
Upper and lower motor neuron degeneration.
Amyotropic lateral sclerosis.
Diagnosis:
Temporal and frontal lobe atrophy
Frontotemporal dementia
Diagnosis:
Temporal and parietal lobe atrophy
Alzheimer’s disease
Length of absence seizure
less than 20 sec
Most common location of hypertensive intraparenchymal brain hemorrhage
Basal ganglia (putamen)
Diagnosis:
Slapfoot
Common peroneal neuropathy
Diagnosis:
decreased acetylcholine release
Botulism
Diagnosis:
Degeneration of neurons within the myenteric plexus
and
Swallowing problems
Achalasia
Diagnosis:
Fibrous tissue replacement of smooth muscles
Systemic sclerosis
Diagnosis:
Inflammatory demyelination of axons in the central nervous system
Multiple sclerosis
Diagnosis:
Progressive degeneration and death of motor neurons
Amyotropic lateral sclerosis
Damage to Edinger Westphal nucleus - symptoms?
E-W nucleus is responsible for pupillary light reflex. Therefore damage to theist structure would result in ipsilateral fixed and dilated pupil that is nonreactive to light or accommodation.
Damage to medial longitudinal fasciculus - symptoms?
MLF is responsible for conjugate horizontal gaze. Damage causes internuclear ophthalmoplegia where the affected eye (ipsilateral to the lesion) is unable to adduct and the contralateral eye abducts with nystagmus.
