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Kathleen Parks I Human Case26 Year Old Reason For Encounter1 : Headaches and More
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Kathleen Parks IHuman Case26 Year
Old Reason For
Encounter1 :
Headaches and More
,
,"Subcortical" dementias? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-
Psychomotor slowing
-Reduced attention
-Early loss of executive function
-Personality changes
Acute severe headache ("thunderclap")
Can occur in?
What is imperative to do? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..•
Can occur in subarachnoid hemorrhage,
vertebral artery dissection, ischemicor
hemorrhagic strokes, hypertensive crisis,
meningeal infection etc.
• Further work-up for underlying cause is
imperative
Allergy Headache
Location?
Symptoms? - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Location: top of
head
Symptoms: runny nose, sneezing and watering
eyes
, Aseptic meningitis
What type of CSF culture?
List the associated diseases? -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..→negative CSF culture
-Mumps
-Herpes simplex virus, coxsackievirus,
echoviruses
-Infectious mononucleosis
-Leptospirosis, syphilis, Lyme disease
-Drug-induced aseptic meningitis (e.g. from
NSAIDs, sulfonamides and certain monoclonal
antibodies use)
attach slide 41
Bacteria organisms for CNS infections affecting
-infants?
-5yrs?
-young adults?
-older?
-immunosuppressed?
-shunt?
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