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Aqueous Humor Production and Drainage
 • Provides nutrition, removes wastes, and transports neurotransmitters to the avascular
Production and Drainage ... • Provides nutrition ... 10-21 mmHg) AH ... AqueousHumor #Production #Drainage ... #flow #Pathophysiology
Clinically Important Vitamins and Vitamin Deficiency States
Fat-soluble Vitamins: 
 • Vitamin A - Xerophthalmia, night blindness,
Clinically Important ... Beri-beri, Wernicke-Korsakoff ... Vitamins #Deficiency #differential ... signs #symptoms #nutrition
Thiamine Deficiency - Differential Diagnosis Framework and Clinical Manifestations

Causes of Thiamine Deficiency:
 • Poor intake:
	- Diets
Thiamine Deficiency - Differential ... Framework and Clinical ... Manifestations #Differential ... syndromes #beriberi #nutrition ... #pathophysiology
Refeeding Syndrome: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

Patients at Risk of Refeeding Syndrome:
 - Little or no nutritional
Pathogenesis and clinical ... - Little or no nutritional ... - Wernicke-Korsakoff ... Syndrome #diagnosis #pathophysiology
Refeeding Syndrome Overview

What Is It?
	• Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused by initiation of nutrition in severely malnourished patient.
initiation of nutrition ... may cause severe clinical ... Refeeding #Syndrome #Nutrition ... #Differential # ... Diagnosis #Pathophysiology
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
brain PRES Clinical ... may precede the neurologic ... Etiology: • Pathophysiology ... Reversible course Differential ... diagnosis #management #neurology
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
combination of the clinical ... lateral sclerosis Pathophysiology ... cellular function Clinical ... conditions listed in differential ... Lateral #Sclerosis #neurology
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
monophasic Pathophysiology ... Transverse Myelitis - Clinical ... antibodies • Nutritional ... diagnosis #management #neurology ... #differential
SEPSIS AND SEPTIC SHOCK

DEFINITION AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
 • Sepsis: Life-threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host
DEFINITION AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY ... • Pathophysiology ... CLINICAL FEATURES ... /kg/hr • The Neurologic ... Prompt removal/drainage
Hydrocele: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Non-communicating:
 - Localized infection or trauma
 - Previous varicocelectomy or inguinal surgery
Pathogenesis and Clinical ... Impaired fluid drainage ... #Hydrocele #Pathophysiology ... Symptoms #Diagnosis #Urology