Path 5 final exam - group A Flashcards
Diplopia?
Double vision
Most common symptom of brain tumor?
Constant headache
Child just recovered from chickenpox and is getting regular aspirin. Child now has rash, nausea, vomit?
Reyes Syndrome
Client just recovered from severe flu, with vomit, diarrhea. Now has flaccid paralysis, ascending mm weakness and paresthesia and numbness in lower limbs?
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Poliomyelitis is spread by?
Fecal-oral route
Which autoimmune condition is associated with CNS plaques and colder climates?
Multiple sclerosis
Most comnemon type of stroke?
Ischemic
Polio is caused by?
Viral infection
Intravascular pressure exploits weakness in arterial walls and causes ballooning of an artery within the Circle of Willis. Best described as?
Berry aneurysm
Stiff neck, headache, fever are triad of symptoms for?
Meningitis
Viral infection with painful skin blisters that follow the underlying route of cranial or spinal nerves?
Herpes Zoster
Abnormal, temporary, uncontrolled electrical discharge from a group of neurons?
Seizure
Most important factor in assessing and helping manage person with post-polio syndrome?
manage stress
Ptosis?
drooping eyelid
Sign associated with Horner’s Syndrome?
Miosis