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Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) Latest Exam
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Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) LatestExam 2024-2025
Explanatory-Answer To explain or give insight into something
S-Answer Abbreviation for 'seconds'
has-Answer A verb possessing something
ago-Answer An adverb indicating some time in the past
er-Answer A suffix forming comparative adjectives
Risk factors-Answer Conditions or behaviors that predispose someone to a certain
disease or condition
ally - Answer A suffix used to form adverbs indicating a state or condition
Pathophysiology - Answer The study of the functional changes that occur in the body as
a consequence of disease or injury
Clinical features - Answer Observable signs and symptoms of a disease or condition
Diagnosis - Answer Determination of a disease or condition based on its signs and
symptoms and test results
Treatment - Medical care given to keep a disease or condition under control or to cure it
, Idiopathic intracranial hypertension - A condition in which the pressure in the skull is
increased but the cause is not known.
Women of childbearing age - Women who are of an age that they could become
pregnant
Recent weight gain/obesity - Weight gain that has happened in a short period of time OR
being very overweight
Drugs [e.g., retinoids/vitamin A, tetracyclines, growth hormone] Components of drugs
used to cure or prevent diseases or disorders, for instance, vitamin A and its
byproducts, tetracyclines, and growth hormone
Impaired CSF resorption & intracranial venous hypertension - Answer A condition
whereby CSF is not well absorbed into the blood and there is also an increase in
pressure from within the veins in the skull head.
Headache/nausea/vomiting - Symptoms of ache in head, queasy feeling in one's
stomach, and action of forcing out the stomach contents through the mouth
Visual changes (transient obscurations; loss of vision; diplopia due to abducens nerve
[CN VI] palsy) - Alterations in vision including dimming and/or darkening of vision
temporarily, loss of vision, and double vision secondary to abducens nerve
Pulsatile tinnitus-Answer A ringing or buzzing sound in the ears that beats in time with
the pulse
Retrobulbar pain/neck pain/back pain-Answer Pain located behind the eyeball, in the
neck, or in the back
Papilledema & enlarged blind spots-Answer Swelling of the optic disc and increased
areas of vision loss
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