Rapid Fire Facts Flashcards
Most common cause of congenital malformations in the US
Alcohol
Most common cause of neural tue defects
folate deficiency
Most common cause of congenital intellectual disability in the US
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Hyperflexible joints, arachnodactyly, aortic dissection, lens dislocation
Marfan’s syndrome
Hereditary nephritis, cataracts, sensoineural hearing loss
Alport syndrome
Unilateral facial drooping involving the forehead
Bell’s (facial nerve) palsy
Ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis
Horner’s syndrome
“Worst headache of my life”
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Lucid interval following head trauma
Epidural hematoma
Blood CSF on LP
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Most common cause of subdural hematoma
Rupture of bridging veins
Most common cause of epidural hematoma
Rupture of middle meningeal artery
Treatment for absence seizure
Ethosuxamide
Treatment for tonic-clonic seizures
Phenytoin, Valproic acid, carbamepazine
Toe extension upon stimulating the sole of the foot with a blunt instrument
Positive Babinski sign
Hyperreflexia, increased muscle tone, positive Babinski sign
Upper motor neuron lesion
Hyporeflexia, decreased muscle tone, muscle atrophy
Lower motor neuron lesion
Depigmentation of the substantia nigra
Parkinson disease
Chorea, dementia, and atrophy of the caudate and putamen
Huntington disease
Eosinophilic inclusions in cytoplasm of neurons
Lewy bodies
Conjugate lateral gaze palsy with nystagmus and diplopia during lateral gaze
Internuclear opthalmoplegia
Degeneration of dorsal columns
Tabes dorsalis (syphilis)
Demyelinating disease in a young woman
Multiple sclerosis
Mixed upper and lower motor neuron disease
ALS
Newborn with arm paralysis following a difficult labor
Erb palsy
Most common cause of dementia
Alzheimer disease
Second most common cause of dementia
Multi-infact dementia
Extracellular amyloid deposits in gray matter
Amyloid plaques of AD
Intracellular deposits of hyperphosphorylated tau protein
Neurofibrillary tangles of AD
Intracellular spherical aggregates of tau protein seen in silver stain
Pick disease (fronto-temporal dementia)
Amyloid deposits in gray matter of brain
Senile plaques of AD
Drooling farmer
Organophosphate poisoning (insectisides)
Medical treatment for pheochromocytoma
alpha agonist such as phenoxybenzamine
Selective alpha-1 agonist used to treat BPH
Tamsulosin
Continuous machine-like murmur
PDA
Boot-shaped heart
Right ventricular hypertrophy (as in tetrology of fallot)