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Where do mycotic aneurysms occur?

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Over cerebral convexities

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What causes mycotic aneurysms?

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Usually bacterial infections from drug use or HIV.

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Do hematomas enhance with contrast?

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No

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Why is levatiracetam better to use than lamotrigine in acute management of seizures?

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The dose of lamotrigine must be increased very slowly to prevent steven johnsons syndrome. Over weeks to months.

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Amaurosis fugax and cause?

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Transient monocular vision loss usually from extracranial carotid artery disease.

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Why can’t phenytoin be infused rapidly IV? What to use instead?

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Phenytoin infused IV above 50mg/min can cause cardiac arrhythmias or hypotension. Use fosphenytoin instead (can also be given IM).

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Course of action if a patient has a first seizure?

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Get a brain MRI to rule out a structural lesion.

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Lenox Gastaut Syndrome

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Mental retardation with multiple seizure types (usually 1-2 Hz spike and wave). Often with a history of infantile spasms.

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What drug should be given to patients with a traumatic head injury?

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Phenytoin to decrease the incidence of post traumatic seizures

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Diffuse axonal injury

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Shearing of axonal bundles at the grey white junction due to intense acceleration/deceleration injury.

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Mesial temporal sclerosis and treatment?

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Most common cause of complex partial seizures in adults. Can be seen on MRI. Can be treated with surgical resection of right anterior temporal lobe.

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Jacksonian March

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Focal motor seizure that spreads and can secondarily generalize causing LOC and tonic-clonic seizures. Face can be involved early due to proximity of face and thumb on the motor strip.

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Myoclonic seizures

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Usually happen upon awakening, with light, and with loud sounds. Seen in Benign Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy.

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Epilepsia Partialis Continua

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Focal motor seizure activity that persists (focal motor status epilepticus)

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West Syndrome. Associated disease?

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Generalized seizure disorder in infants with recurrent spasms. Can be associated with tuberous sclerosis (ash-leaf spots, cardiac rhabdomyomas, angiofibromas).

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Triptans side effect

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Vasospasm so don’t give to patients with CAD

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Migraine abortive medications

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Triptans, ergots, etc

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Migrane preventative medications

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Beta blockers, amytriptyline, nifedapine, topamax, valproate.

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How to abort cluster headaches

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100% O2, triptans, ergots

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Trigeminal neuralgia can caused by? Associated disease?

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Aneurysm of superior cerebellar artery can press on V. Can be associated with MS

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Pseudotumor cerebri, cause?

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Increased intracranial pressure causes headaches, optic disk atrophy (pallor), tinnitus. Vit A overdose, idiopathic in obese women

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How to treat pseudotumor cerebri? Diagnose?

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Acetazolamide, VP shunts. Opening pressure >250 mm H2O.

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Classic vs common migraine?

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Classic has aura

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Basilar Migraine

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Women>Men, visual changes for 10-30 mins, then headache. Can cause coma, psychosis, transient quadriplegia.

Essentially just a migraine with super intense consequences.

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Atypical facial pain
Constant throbbing unilateral pain that can be treated with antidepressants.
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Intracranial Hypotension
Headaches that occur on standing after a lumbar punction. Negative pressure pulls meninges down. Also occurs if CSF is leaking through nose after trauma.
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Which lobe of the brain is most likely injured in a traumatic brain injury?
The temporal and inferior frontal lobes (coup injury). Can cause uncal herniation. Countrecoup injury is when the occipital lobe rebounds and gets injured.
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Cushing reaction
Hypertension, bradycardia, respiratory depression from increased ICP due to mass or other.
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Von Economo Encephalitis (encephalitis lethargica)
Occurred with the influenza virus from 1918 to 1928. Cause parkinsonism, oculogyric crises, dystonia, autonomic symptoms
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Neurological injury associated with sarcoidosis?
Facial nerve palsy. Facial paresis with no sensory loss.
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PML
Nonenhancing white matter lesions that cause hypertonia, LAD, involuntary movement, ataxia, dementia , and seizures. Rapidly progressive, caused by the JC virus.
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Neurologic Symptoms of Schistosoma
Lay eggs in the veins of batson, can migrate and deposit in cord causing compression. Causes granulomatous inflammation in cord leading to focal weakness and paralysis.
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Echinococcus brain cysts?
Large cyst filled with daughter cysts.
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Creutzfeld Jacob Disease EEG findings?
Rapidly progressive dementia, EEG shows general slowing and triphasic sharp waves but LP is normal.
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Creutzfeld Jacob disease symptoms and LP findings
Ataxia, gradual cognitive decline, myoclonus, seizures, involuntary movements. LP largely normal but sometimes can show 14-3-3 protein.
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Creutzfeld Jacob disease imaging
DWI shows cortical and subcortical abnormalities.
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CNS lymphoma caused by
EBV in HIV
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When is it safe to LP somebody?
When there is no mass effect.
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Most common form of acute encephalitis?
HSV-1
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Microglial nodules associated with
HIV and CMV
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EEG of herpes encephalitis
Bilateral periodic epileptiform discharges
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Where do abscesses form?
At grey-white junction
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Most common fungal abscess?
Aspergillus
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What is more common in AIDS? Toxo or crypto?
Toxoplasmosis is more common. Can cause brain abscesses
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Symptom of brain abscesses?
Headache is most common.
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Most common bacterial cause of brain abscess?
Strep
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How are staph brain abscesses acquired? | Which is more likely? Staph or enteric bacteria abscesses?
Penetrating wound or neurosurgery. | Enteric bacterial abscesses
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Elderly person meningitis?
Listeria, treat with ampicillin and gentamicin.
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One interesting way CJD can be spread?
Through GH prep from cadaveric pituitary glands
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SSPE
Increase in gamma globulin in CSF. Causes emotional lability, seizures, chorioretinitis, ataxia, UMN destruction years after measles.
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Bartonella Henselae Encephalitis
From cats, can cause status epilepticus and affects the pulvinar of the thalamus on MRI.
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Most common brain tumor
astrocytoma
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Hyperostosis
Less common in 1 brain tumors than hypo-ostosis. Meningiomas can cause hyperostosis
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Pineal region tumors special characteristic
Can be from all germ layers, so can behave similarly to choriocarcinoma or germinomas which can cause precocious puberty.
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Which cancer is most likely met to brain without a primary tumor?
Lung
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Shortest lifespan after a met?
Melanoma due to a propensity for bleeding
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Tumors that met to brain and bleed?
Thyroid, choriocarcinoma, melanoma, renal cell carcinoma
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Hypothalamic hamartomas
Nonneoplastic malformations of neurons and glia that can cause neurendocrine symptoms (like puberty or acromegaly) and paroxysms of laughter known as gelastic seizures. Cure surgically
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Gelastic seizure
A paroxysm of laughter generally seen in patients with hypothalamic hamartomas.
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Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
Anti-yo antibodies against cerebellar purkinje cells produced in SCLC gyn and breast maligancies. Relentlessly progressive. Often develops before primary cancer is apparent.
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Multiple myeloma neurological side effect?
Peripheral neuropathy. Can be solely sensory or sensorimotor, can put a patient in a wheelchair. Can also be seen with MGUS.
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Liver failure effect on the brain?
Changes astrocytes.
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CSF change with hypertensive encephalopathy?
Slight increase in protein (100 mg/dl)
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Common neurological consequence of chronic renal failure?
Peripheral neuropathy (mixed sensorimotor). Improves with dialysis.
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How to treat RLS?
Dopamine agonists
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B12 deficiency field cut?
Causes a scotoma that widens the macular blind spot.
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Deficiency ambliopia
Seen with B12 deficiency or alcoholism/tobacco use due to decreased thiamine.
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Which deficiency causes peripheral neuropathy?
B6.
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EEG finding of alzheimers
General slowing of the posterior dominant rhythm. It's usually 8-12 Hz, but with AD it slows.
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Most common cause of dementia?
At least 50% is caused by AD.
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Common complication of VP shunts for NPH?
Subdural hematoma -- due to quickly lowering pressure. presents with confusion.
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What type of aphasia is common in alzheimer's?
Transcortical sensory. Repetition intact, but ability to understand complex sentences is decreased.
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Transient global aphasia
Antero and retrograde memory loss
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General paresis
Manifestations of neurosyphilis. Memory loss, inappropriate behavior, myoclonus, delusions.
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Symptoms of hypothyroidism
myoedema, inattention, poor concentration, delusions
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Nonenhancing white matter lesions
PML
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Bladder dysfunction in MS?
Spastic bladder = premature emptying
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Neuromyelitis Optica
Recurrent episodes of optic neuritis followed by transverse myelitis. Associated with anti-aquaporin4 antibody. Paraparesis, bladder+bowel dysfunction, sensory deficit.
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Pelizaus-Merzbacher Disease
Demyelinating sudanophilic leukodystrophy, symptomatic as a toddler, may extend to 3rd decade. Causes optic atrophy and athetosis
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How to treat hemangioblastoma from VHL?
Surgery
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Symptoms of VHL
Erythrocytosis, hemagioblastomas, cerebellar signs, hematuria, and HSM
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Cause of congenital hydrocephalus?
Viral infection like mumps, rubella, during first trimester.
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Tuberous sclerosis eye findings
Retinal phakomas-- gliomatous tumors that require no treatment
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What are calcifications on Xray in tuberous sclerosis?
Subependymal glial nodules
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What does a downs syndrome brain look like?
Smaller and more simplified
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How does alcohol cause fetal alcohol syndrome?
It impairs fetal neuronal migration
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Myotonic dystrophy
CGG repeat disease with frontal balding, cataracts, repetitive EMG discharges with minor stimulation and impaired relaxation.
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Poorest prognostic indicator for ALS?
Tongue fasciculations, indicates spread to brainstem
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How does lead poisoning cause brain herniation in very young kids?
Massive brain edema
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Manganese poisoning symptoms?
Mimics Wilson disease
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Retinitis pigmentosa
Common hereditary disease involving retinal receptors. Causes optic disk pallor and usually abetalipoproteinemia
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Sturge-Weber opthalmic finding?
Glaucoma
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Papilledema vs papillitis
Papillitis has vision loss
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Gradenigo Syndrome
Osteomyelitis of petrous bone that can cause gaze palsy of abducens nerve in young kids.
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Eye muscle at risk during trauma
Superior oblique innervated by the trochlear.
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Ocular motor nerve likely to be involved with varicella zoster opthalmicus?
Trochlear
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If no optokinetic nystagmus, where is the lesion?
In the parietal lobe
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Vision loss with cherry red fovea and narrow arterioles?e
Occlusion of the central retinal artery
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Orbital cellulitis vs cavernous sinus thrombosis
Orbital cellulitis is characterized by periorbital pain, double vision, proptosis. Cavernous sinus thrombosis has these things PLUS vision loss.
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PRES
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, seen in cyclosporine and tacrolimus. Headache, visual dysfunction, confusion, seizures.
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Most common cause of acute monocular blindness?
Ischemic optic neuropathy
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Which is more likely to infarct? Anterior spinal artery or posterior spinal artery?
Anterior. So dorsal columns (vibration) usually spared.
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Early phases of meniere's hearing loss?
Loss of low frequency sounds
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What causes toxic labyrithitis and tinnitus?
Aspirin
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How long does spinal shock last? What are the symptoms?
Lasts 3 days - 3 weeks. Causes lower motor neuron signs (hyporeflexia, decreased tone) even though the spinal cord is damaged
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What causes abdominal aortic aneurysm?
Atherosclerosis
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Level of the artery of adamkiewicz?
T10-L1
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Lyme radiculopathy
Lyme disease can cause a radiculopathy that is not cured by sertoids
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Most common cause of mononeuritis multiplex?
Diabetes mellitus
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Common sequellae of Friedrich's ataxia?
Diabetes mellitus
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What is responsible for friedrich Ataxia peripheral findings?
Degeneration of the DRG
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Why is LP necessary in baby between 0 and 1 with fever and seizures?
Because meningitis can present this way in the absence of other symptoms.
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What do raccoon eyes signify?
Basilar skull fracture
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How to improve the outcome of a severe TBI?
Hypothermia
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How to treat optic neuritis
IV methylprednisolone
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% of women who develop MS after optic neuritis?
75%
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How to treat MS bladder spasticity?
Oxybutynin, imipramine, or anything else with anticholinergic properties
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How to treat GBM
Surgery then radiotherapy. Poorly responsive to chemotherapy.

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