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TYPES OF CEREBRAL PALSY AND AREAS OF BRAIN DAMAGE INVOLVED 
Hemiplegia 
Diplegia 
Quadriplegia 
Athetoid
Dystonic 
Ataxic
Quadriplegia Athetoid ... Dystonic Ataxic #CereberalPalsy ... Extrapyramidal #Diagnosis
Motor Syndromes of Cerebral Palsy:

Spastic Hemiplegia, Spastic diplegia, Spastic quadriplegia (‘total body involvement’), Athetoid (extrapyramidal, dyskinetic)

#Diagnosis
involvement’), Athetoid ... dyskinetic) #Diagnosis ... #Neurology #CerebralPalsy
Causes of Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Tics:
 • Tourette's Syndrome
 • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
- Differential Diagnosis ... Toxic / metabolic Chorea ... Huntington's Disease Athetosis ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Primary and Secondary Causes of Mitral Regurgitation
Primary (organic) chronic mitral regurgitation:
 • Leaflet: Rheumatic fever, Infective
Scleroderma) • Chordae ... Drug-related • Chordae ... #differential #diagnosis ... #cardiology #causes
Systolic Murmurs - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Benign / Flow / Hyperdynamic:
 • Pregnancy
 • Fever
 • Anemia
Supravalvular
- Differential Diagnosis ... Regurgitation - Chordae ... Systolic #Murmurs #Cardiology ... #Differential #Diagnosis
Causes of mitral stenosis
Rheumatic heart disease
 - Most common cause worldwide. Commissural fusion, thick MV leaflets
and shortened chordae ... papillary muscles, or chordae ... restricted leaflets/chordae ... stenosis #Causes #diagnosis ... #differential #cardiology
Cardiac Stress Testing
Exercise:
 • Everyone who can exercise should!
 • They must be able to raise
ventricular arrythmias Diagnostics ... CT/MRI ($$$$) CORE ... Stress #Testing #cardiology ... #management #diagnosis
Osborn waves - positive deflections at the J point (negative in aVR and V1) with a
hypothermia with a core ... patient with a core ... EmergencyMedicine #Cardiology ... #diagnosis #CriticalCare
Causes of Primary and Functional Mitral Regurgitation (MR) 
Causes of primary mitral regurgitation
 - Rheumatic heart
MV chordae may rupture ... stretched strut chord ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #Cardiology
Degenerated Left Atrial Myxoma on Echocardiogram (PLAX)
A 68-year-old gentleman with progressive shortness of breath and cystic
Final diagnosis ... traumatic torn MV chordae ... PLAX #clinical #cardiology
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