Part 3 Flashcards
Clinical features produced by infarction are determined by?
ANATOMIC distribution of the damage rather than the underlying cause
Lacunar inracts lodge where?
distal smaller vessels–lenticulostriate vessels
Brain morphology of respirator brainAlso seen in what kind of disorders of babies?
liquefactive necrosis; seen in encephalomalacia and leukoencephalopathy in babies
cerebral amloid angiopathy is a feature of what?
seen in aging; primary inflammation
Are isolated subarachnoid hemorrhages associated with trauma??
NO!
Types of fractures and associationsDiastatic, general fracture, basilar skull fracture
general–artherosclerotic change–epidural hematomabasilar skull fracture–ocular n entrapment, hemotympariumdiastatic–separates bones at sutures–linear fractures
Last suture to fuse is?
Lamboid suture–doesnt fuse till 60 years!
What is craniosynostosis?
premature fusion of cranial sutures
What kind of lesion do you get months after aneurysms rupture? Cause?
cavitary lesions–caused by microglial cells pahocytizing ; seen in CT/ MRI
Disorders related to hypertension in brain
slit hemorrhage, lacunar infarcts, hypertensive encephalopathy, Binswanger disease
Binswanger disease affects what part of brain?
white matter infective encephalopathy
CADASIL is what and associated with what?
Leukoencephalopathy–soft brain (white); associated with subcortical infarcts; scandanivia
Virchow Robins space
subarachnoid space (affected by meningitis) around blood vessels
Most CNS infections spread ____
hematogenously
Viruses that affect peripheral nerves
Rabies and HSV
Chemical meningitis
from chemotheraphy
What do you see in chronic meningitis (syphillis, TB, cryptococcus, neuroborrelia)
FIBROSIS resulting in communicating hydrocephalus
Eye finding in meningitis or meningoencephalitis
papilledema (need to check fundus before lumbar tap)
Once an infection gets out of the virchow robins space into the brain, its called?
Encephalitis syndrome
Children meningtis order of organisms
GBS, Listeria, E Coli
Older adults meningtitis
S. pneumonia, E Coli (if immunocompromised), Listeria
Meningitis extending into vessels or brain parenchyma can lead to?
Phlebitis or hemorrhagic infarction
What is chronic adehesive arachnoiditis?
thickening fibrosis that occurs with meningitis in the leptomeninges
Pleomorphic cells are seen in what kind of meningitis?
Aseptic
Difference between Herpes and CMV in terms of location affected in the brain
Herpes=TEMPORAL LOBECMV=PERIVENTRICULAR LOCATIONS
Rubella infection–how get it?
intrauterine viral infection