Stroke Flashcards

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MCA stroke.

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  • occurs in motor and sensory cortices effecting face and upper limb, also wernike and broca areas
  • Contralateral paralysis and sensory loss on face and upper limbs
  • aphasia if left (dominant) hemisphere
  • Hemineglect if non dominant usually right hemisphere
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ACA stroke

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  • Motor and sensory cortices of lower extremity
  • Contralateral paralysis and sensory loss
    • lower limb and urinary incontinence
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Lenticuolostriate artery stroke

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  • Striatum and internal capsule
  • Contralateral paralysis, absence of cortical signs such as aphasia neglect or visual changes
    • PURE motor stroke commonly caused by hyaline arte3riosclerosis secondary to uncontrolled htn
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Anterior spinal artery stroke

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  • Corticospinal tract, Medial lemniscus and Caudal medulla (CN XII)
  • Contralateral paralysis of upper and lower limbs
  • Decreased contralateral proprioception
  • Ipsilateral hypoglossal dysfunction → tongue deviates ipsilateral
  • Medial Medullary syndrome caused by infarct of paramedian banches of ASA or vertebral arteries
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PICA stroke

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  • Lateral medulla → nucleus ammbiguus ( CN 9, 10, 11)
    • Dysphagia, hoarsness and decreased gag reflex are big symptoms
  • Vestibiular nuclei
    • Vomit, vertigo, nystagmus
  • Lateral spinothalamic tract and spinal trigeminal nucleus
    • decreased pain and temp sensation from contralateral body and ipsilateral face
  • sympathetic fibers
    • ipsilateral horner syndrome
  • Inferior cerebellar peduncle
    • ipsilateral ataxia and dysmetria
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AICA stroke

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  • Facial nucleus
    • paralysis of face (LMN vs UMN lesion seen in cortical strokes), decreased lacrimation salivation and taste
  • Vestibular nuclei
    • Vomit vertigo and nystagmus
  • Spinothalamic tract and spinal trigeminal nucleus
    • Dec pain and temp ssensation from contralageral body and ipsilateral face
  • Sympathetic fibers
    • horners syndrome ipsilateral
  • Middle and inferior cerebellar peduncles
    • ipsilateral ataxia dysmetria
  • Labryinthine artery
    • ipsilateral sensorineual deafness and vertigo

Italics are same sx as PICA

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What is lateral medullary syndrome (Wallenberg)

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  • Nucleus ambiguus symptoms specific to a PICA infarction
  • don’t PICA horse that can’t eat
    • hoarsness and dysphagia
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What is Lateral pontine syndrome?

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  • Facial nucleus effects specific to AICA lesion
  • Facial droop means AICA’s pooped
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Basilar artery stroke

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  • Pons medulla and lower midbrain
    • if RAS is spared consciousness is preserved
    • If not Locked in syndrome
  • Corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts
    • Quadriplegia, loss of voluntary facial, mouth, and tongue movement
  • Ocular cranial nerve nuclei, paramedian pontine reticular formation
    • Loss of horizontal but NOT vertical eye movement
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Occipital lobe stroke

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Contralateral hemianopia with macuolar sparing

alexia without agraphia

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Brown Sequard Syndrome

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  • Ipsilateral loss sensation at level of lesion
  • Ipsilateral LMN signs at level of lesion
  • Ipsilateral UMN signs below lesion
  • Ipsilateral loss proprioception vibration and light touch and tactile sense below lesion
  • Contralateral loss of pain temp and crude touch below lesion
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Marcus Gunn Pupil

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  • light is swung to affected eye both puppils dilate instead of constrict due to imparied conduction of light signals along injured optic nerve
    • assoc. with optic neuritis and early MS
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  • Craniosacral Outflow PSNS:
    • CN III Edinger Westphal nucleus- does ___ & ____.
    • CN VII Superior salivary nucleus does _____
    • CN IX Inferior salivatory nucleus does _____
    • CN X dorsal vagal nucleus does _____.
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  • Edinger Westphal does miosis and accomidation
  • Superior salivary does salivation in lacrimal gland
  • Inferior salivary does salivation in parotid gland
  • Dorsal vagal does GI and lung secretions
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M1 M4 and M5 location and agonist action?

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  • CNS
  • Procognitive agonist action
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M2 location and agonist action and antagonist::?

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  • Heart
  • Bradycarida agonist
  • Tachycardia and increased AV node conduction antagonist
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M3 location (5 of them) agonist and antagonist?

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  • Urinary tract, Bladder contraction, bladder relaxation with antagonist
  • GI tract, increase peristalsis, decrease peristalsis antagonists
  • Exocrine glands, increase secretion, decrease secretion antagonist
  • eye, miosis, mydriasis antagonist
  • Airway, bronchoconstriction, bronchodilation antagonist
  • Muscarinic agonist=cholinergic= anti sympathetic*
  • Muscarinic antagonist=anticholinergic=sympathetic*
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Posterior columns function?

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Fine touch proprioception (discriminative touch)

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What are the three synapses of the posterior column?

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  • Sensory neuron → dorsal column nuclei (in medulla)
  • DCN decusates at medial lemniscus and synapses at thalamus
  • Thalamus → primary sensory cortex
  • PC “poliltically correct” → SDTP “some doctors think politically”
    • Sensory neuron → Dorsal column → Thalamus → Primary sensory cortex
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Corticospinal tract function?

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  • controls movement, UMN
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Corticospinal tract synapses?

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  • Primary motor cortex → internal capsule → UMN → medullary pyramid
  • at medullary pyramid it splits into anterior and lateral corticospinal tract
  • then they descend down into the anterior horns of the spinal cord to control movement
  • “PPLM” Primary motor, medullary Pyramids, Lcst, Movement
  • “Prickly Plants Lack Moisture”
    • cactus are spiney and live in deserts
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Lateral spinothalamic tract function

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Pain and temp sensation but two to three segements below on the contralateral side

Lissauer’s tract

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What is Lissauer’s tract?

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  • Part of the lateral spinothalamic tract that carries pain and temp sensation up two to three segments before they cross back over
  • injury to C5 on right Spinothalamic tract you experience pain temp loss at C7 pain temp loss on the left
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Brown Sequard syndrome? Injury at Right T8

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  • Hemi transcection of spinal cord knocking out posterior columns, corticospinal tract, and lateral spinothalamic tract
  • Ipsilateral loss of fine touch and proprioception (PC) from T8 down
  • Ipsilateral UMN symptoms below T8
  • LST Starting at T10 and down on contralateral side loss of pain and temp