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Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
neurodegenerative disease ... Epidemiology: • Female ... Diagnosis - Based ... Signs and symptoms ... #diagnosis #management
What is a Boxer’s fracture?? Fracture of the 4th or 5th metacarpal neck
 - Common in
Common in younger males ... onto the hand Symptoms ... Management: - ... Overlying wounds or signs ... Hand #Metacarpal #Diagnosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ... Presentation: - Disease ... course of the disease ... fasciculations Common Symptoms ... #management
Pseudogout: pathogenesis and clinical findings
 - Idiopathic (vast majority of cases) -> Mechanism unknown
 - Familial
phosphorous in bones ... - Subchondral sclerosis ... Pseudogout #CPPD #Disease ... #Signs #Symptoms ... Pathophysiology #Diagnosis
Characteristics of Peripheral and Central Vertigo
PERIPHERAL VERTIGO
 • Onset: Sudden
 • Intensity: Severe initially, often decreasing
tinnitus (Méniére's disease ... and multiple sclerosis ... Central #Vertigo #diagnosis ... #findings #signs ... #symptoms #comparison
Optic Neuritis - Diagnosis and Management
 • Epidemiology: Female (75%), 18-50 years,
caucasian
 • Symptoms: Moderate visual
and Management ... Epidemiology: Female ... caucasian • Symptoms ... Unilateral • Signs ... other auto-immune diseases
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia - Illness Script

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: Unknown trigger, reversible inflammatory/fibroproliferative process. Polypoid fibroblastic aggregates that plug
=Females SIGNS/ ... SYMPTOMS: • Acute ... misdiagnosed as CAP • Symptoms ... steroids for severe disease ... #management #pulmonary
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
• Bilateral signs ... and/or symptoms ... suggestive of multiple sclerosis ... : - Multiple sclerosis ... #management #neurology
Relapsing Polychondritis

What is it?
Recurrent inflammation of the cartilage in the body (Autoimmune disorder)

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
as 20 years • Females ... ethnicities Symptoms ... + Nonspecific symptoms ... keratitis, uveitis, scleritis ... #management