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Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Anterior Cord Syndrome -> Anterior spinal artery
Acute Spinal Cord ... , often from vascular ... weakness and #Acute ... pathophysiology #signs ... #orthopedics #neurology
Causes of Pediatric Constipation - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Dietary / Functional:
 • Insufficient Volume / Bulk
Neurologic:
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Causes of Pediatric ... Hirschsprung's Disease ... • Spinal Cord ... Guillain-Barré Syndrome • Muscular ... #Peds #Pediatrics
Causes of acute kidney injury (AKI). AKI is classified into pre-renal, renal, and post-renal causes. Renal
Causes of acute ... of the kidney (vascular ... and interstitial disease ... Diagnosis #AKI #Acute ... #Sites #Nephrology
Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
Causes of Neuromuscular ... Weakness • Spinal Cord ... Phrenic nerve injury ... Mitochondrial myopathy, Muscular ... differential #diagnosis #neurology
Acute Kidney Injury - Classification
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration
 • Heart failure (a.k.a. cardiorenal syndrome)
 • Liver failure
Acute Kidney Injury ... - Acute tubular ... necrosis (causes ... prerenal AKI) - Acute ... EricsMedicalLectures/ #AKI #Acute
Kawasaki Disease (Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome) 
An rare systemic acute febrile vasculitic syndrome. Aetiology unknown. 
Affects
Kawasaki Disease ... rare systemic acute ... #Features #Signs ... Symptoms #Diagnosis #Peds ... #Pediatrics
Extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19
 • Neurologic: Headaches, Dizziness, Encephalopathy, Guillain-Barré, Ageusia, Myalgia, Anosmia, Stroke
 • Renal:
of COVID-19 • Neurologic ... Stroke • Renal: Acute ... Myocardial ischemia, Acute ... cor pulmonale ... Extrapulmonary #Diagnosis #Signs
Common causes of Acute Kidney Injury AKI - Differential Diagnosis
HEMODYNAMIC
 • Cardiac failure: Impaired forward flow,
Common causes of ... Acute Kidney Injury ... Post-infectious GN, Lupus Acute ... Drugs • Toxins Acute ... #Acute #KidneyInjury
Causes of Acute Kidney Injury ( AKI ) - Prerenal, Renal, and Postrenal

PRE-RENAL 
Impaired perfusion: 
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Causes of Acute ... Kidney Injury ( ... Small-vessel vasculitis Acute ... • Inflammatory disease ... #Diagnosis #Acute
Brudzinski’s Sign in Meningitis (first described in 19th century by Dr. Josef Brudzinski)

Brudzinski's sign is characterized
Passive neck flexion causes ... spinal cord movement ... despite severe disease ... #PhysicalExam #Pediatrics ... #Peds