Pre-Test 3 Flashcards
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis features? Tx?
Autoimmune demyelinating disease in children under 10
Can follow URIs and many other viral diseases
MRI will show white plaques across the brain
Tx is steroids
Hair tuft on spine think what associated features
Occult spinal dysraphism –> cause neurological spinal damage
Inborn error of metabolism that can lead to thromboembolus
Homocystinuria
Ocular ice pack test for
Myasthenia Gravis (ach autoantibodies) –> will show improvement of weakness of eyes muscles
What is Todd paralysis
24-48 hours of paralysis after a seizure
Tay-Sachs features
Lack of B-hexosaminidiase A in WBCs
Macular cherry red spots and exquisite sensitivity to noise
Angiokeratomas in young kids think? def? other key feature?
Fabry
Lacks a-galactosidase
Painful crisis of extremities and abdomen
Myotonic muscular dystrophy features
Distal muscle weakness
Cataracts
Bladness, facial immobility
TB head CT (w/ contrast)
Exudate in basal cisterns w/ enhancement
Low low glucose on LP but neg culture and all lymphocytes
Pontine glioma featurs
CN VII abnormalities
Unsteady gait 2/2 spasticity
Behavioral changes
Subacute sclerosing pancephalitis seen after?
Measles
Neuro issue seen with kids w/ left to right shunting cardiac defects
Brain abscesses
Cushings triad
Hypertension, bradycardia, irregular respirations
3 things seen from craniopharyngioma
Poor growth, DI, and papilledema
Most common site of brain tumors in kids under 1? 1-10 years? > 10?
Under 1: Supratentorial (choriod plexus tumors and teratomas
1-10: Infratentorial
> 10: Supratentorial (astrocytomas)
Young girl who loses loss of hand function and loss of ability to socialize
Rhett syndrome (MECP2 mutation)
Calcifications of congenital toxo
Scattered and “soft appearing”
“Ash leaf” spots seen with
Tuberous sclerosis
SMA caused by
Degeneration of anterior horn cells in the spinal chord
Vasovagal syncope can have twitching why?
Brief ischemia of higher cortical levels
“Milk maid grip” or sequential tightening and relaxing seen with
Sydenham chorea –> seen after strep infections
What is Sturge-Webber
PHACE (posterior fossa malformations, hemiangiomas, arterial anomalies, coarctation, eye abnormalities)
port wine stain along v3
14 year old with precocious puberty who develops goiter
McCune albright
How long does rubella usually last
3 days
What should you do while waiting for final results in a kid born to an HIV + mom
PCP ppx (tmp-smx)
Reyes syndrome death usually from
Cerebral edema and subsequent herniation
Tinea capitus tx
Griseofulvin
In an infant who appears otherwise normal, sudden onset of fever and high left shift suggests
Pneumococcal bacteremia
High fever goes away as rash appears
Roseola
Most common rabies animal in US
Raccoon
Lyme dz rash called
Erythema chorinicum migrans