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Causes of Peripheral Weakness without Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
No Objective Weakness
 • Cardio-pulmonary disease
Sensory Changes - Differential ... Polymyositis • Duchenne ... Muscular Dystrophy ... Weakness #Neurology #Differential
Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
metals), Critical illness ... myopathy, Muscular dystrophy ... , Myotonic dystrophy ... Weakness #Causes #differential
Tick Borne Illnesses
 • Lyme (Borrelia)
 • Babesiosis (Babesia)
 • Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia)
 • Human
Tick Borne Illnesses ... BostonChiefs #Tick #Borne ... #Illnesses #differential
Creatine Kinase - Causes of Elevated CK Levels
Acute CK Elevation (Pain > Weakness):
 • RHABDOMYOLYSIS
daptomycin - Illness ... immobility • Critical Illness ... - Muscular dystrophy ... - Chronic Illness ... #Elevated #CK #differential
Heat Illnesses and Heat Stroke - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Heat Cramps:
 • Muscle pain or spasm -
Heat Stroke - Differential ... Collapse: • Pathophysiology ... pulse rate - Core ... Criteria: - Core ... #differential #
Cardiomyopathies 

Manifestations of cardiomyopathy (CM) range from microscopic alterations in cardiac myocytes to fulminant Heart Failure
Duchenne-Becker ... dystrophy, Neurofibromatosis ... cardiology #diagnosis #differential
Ptosis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Ptosis (Greek- to fall) Drooping of the upper eyelid that usually results
Ptosis - Differential ... nerve palsy • Horner ... myopathy • Myotonic dystrophy ... Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy ... Ptosis #neurology #Differential
Peripheral Edema - Differential Diagnosis Framework for Lower Extremity Edema

Edema occurs when any of the following
Peripheral Edema - Differential ... reflex sympathetic dystrophy ... Peripheral #Edema #differential ... #PhysicalExam #Pathophysiology
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Guillain-Barre Pathophysiology ... Influenza like illnesses ... cardiomyopathy, Horner
The Neurological Evaluation of a Comatose Patient

Definition:
 • Coma: a state of unresponsiveness; the absence of
consciousness Differential ... • Mutism Pathophysiology ... the bilateral cortex ... light reflex • Corneal