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Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
ulceration • Ocular ... basal ganglia, CNS ... meningitis), MCC CNS ... inhibitors • Uveitis- Ophthalmology ... collaboration • CNS
Oculomasticatory Myorhythmia

Pendular vergence oscillations of the eyes + concurrent contractions of the masticatory muscles.  It's
for Whipple's disease ... with CNS involvement ... video #neurology #ocular ... #physicalexam # ... ophthalmology
Summary of actions of some Cholinergic Agonists

Bethanechol 
• Used in treatment of urinary retention 
• Binds
miosis during ocular ... penetrate the CNS ... motility • Reverses CNS ... antidepressants • Reverses CNS ... penetrate the CNS
Ptosis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Ptosis (Greek- to fall) Drooping of the upper eyelid that usually results
- Differential Diagnosis ... three clinical diagnoses ... CN III palsy 2. ... Ptosis - Neurologic disease ... #ophthalmology
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Erythematous, macular ... Differential Diagnosis ... and CNS • Headache ... • Malar rash - spares ... Erythematosus #Diagnosis
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
extrapulmonary disease ... Inhalation of spores ... especially the CNS ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... osteoarticular, pulmonary, ocular