Peripheral Nerve Diseases

Question 1

Guillain-Barré Syndrome pathogenesis

Answer 1

usually follows viral illness, inflammatory disease causing demyelination

Question 2

Guillain-Barré Syndrome description

Answer 2

acute ascending paralysis

Question 3

Guillain-Barré prognosis

Answer 3

usually resolves via remyelination

Question 4

Guillain-Barré CSF findings

Answer 4

elevated proteins

no lymphocytes

Question 5

Type of bacterium causing leprosy

Answer 5

mycobacterium

Question 6

How does the body kill the leprosy mycobacterium?

Answer 6

forming granulomas

Question 7

Tuberculoid leprosy

Answer 7

less severe, more localized with good granuloma formation

Question 8

Lepromatous leprosy

Answer 8

very severe, may lead to autoamputation due to repeated infections and abnormal healing

Question 9

What viral disease may lead to multinucleated giant macrophage cell?

Answer 9

herpes zoster (or other herpes variants)

Question 10

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease: how common?

Answer 10

most common hereditary neurological disease: autosomal dominant (?)

Question 11

Charcot-Marie-Tooth pathophysiology

Answer 11

repeated demyelination and remyelination

Question 12

First clinical sign of Charcot-Marie-Tooth

Answer 12

food drop

Question 13

Charcot-Marie-Tooth: pain and sensory

Answer 13

pain present

sensory not present