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Legionnaire's Disease - Extrapulmonary organ involvement: CNS: Mental confusion, encephalopathic, headache. Cardiac: Relative bradycardia. GI: Loose
organ involvement: CNS ... encephalopathic, headache ... insufficiency #Diagnosis ... Legionnaires #Legionella #Algorithm
Approach to Headaches - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Red flags (PHANTOMS):
 • Pattern change, progressively worse, papilledema
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- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Red ... brain lesion • CNS ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #Algorithm #neurology
Anisocoria - Pupillary Defects - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Physiological - Simple Anisocoria ( <O.5mm)
 - Anisocoria equal
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Physiological ... pilocarpine • Oculomotor ... Fascicle (Other CN ... adrenaline • Cluster Headache
Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) - Clinical Manifestations
 • Optic neuritis: Reduced visual acuity, ranging from mild to
syndromes (e.g. oculomotor ... Many others • Transverse ... pain • Extra-CNS ... Manifestations #diagnosis
Signs and Symptoms Associated With Different Headache Etiologies
 • Nonfocal mental status changes - Meningitis, encephalitis,
With Different Headache ... pulsations on funduscopy ... movement deficits (CN ... ), IIH #headache ... #differential #diagnosis
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
Differential Diagnosis ... • May involve PNS ... and CNSHeadache ... neuropathy • Transverse ... Erythematosus #Diagnosis
Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS)
(aka: Landry–Guillain–Barré–Strohl syndrome:
	Most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis
	Rapidly progressive ascending paralysis & areflexia
	Autonomic
Differential diagnosis ... Multiple Sclerosis: CNS ... West Nile virus: Headache ...  Transverse myelitis