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Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Anterior Cord Syndrome -> Anterior spinal artery
Acute Spinal Cord ... Syndrome ->Cord ... #diagnosis #pathophysiology ... #signs #symptoms ... #orthopedics #neurology
Causes of Urinary Incontinence - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 - Transient - Easily reversible cause (DIAPPERS)
Psychological/psychiatric ... Contraction - Signs ... neuropathy or spinal cord ... disease, cauda ... equina syndrome,
Alzheimer’s Disease: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
Risk factor for Late Onset Alzheimer's (99% of cases):
 - Increasing
Alzheimer’s Disease ... mutations - Down syndrome ... chromosome 21) Signs ... memory • Aphasia, word-finding ... AlzheimersDisease #Dementia #pathophysiology
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
signs below the ... Sarcoidosis, Behcet disease ... MCTD, Sjogren syndrome ... disorders #diagnosis #neurology ... differential #algorithm
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
Behçet's Syndrome ... skin injury) • Neurologic ... matter, spinal cord ... tests in Behcet syndrome ... diagnosis #management #signs
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
monophasic Pathophysiology ... super-antigen mediated disease ... • Bilateral signs ... MCTD - Bechet disease ... diagnosis #management #neurology
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
neurodegenerative disease ... • Or brainstem syndromes ... Signs and symptoms ... Progressive MS (Spinal cord ... objective evidence of neurologic
Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Epidemiology:
 • Prevalence: 1-2 cases per million -
Pathophysiology ... spinal cord. ... poisoning, Parkinson's disease ... Baclofen • Severe Disease ... Management #treatment #neurology
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
lateral sclerosis Pathophysiology ... Presentation: - Disease ... spinal cord regions ... course of the disease ... Lateral #Sclerosis #neurology
Anorexia Nervosa: Complications
CARDIAC ABNORMALITIES
 - Functional: Low BP, Sinus bradycardia, prolonged QT interval
 - Structural: Reduced
/ Hypovolemia NEUROLOGIC ... Cold Intolerance ... Complications #pathophysiology ... #diagnosis #signs ... #symptoms #psychiatry