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Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Anterior Cord Syndrome -> Anterior spinal artery
Acute Spinal Cord ... spinal artery injury ... Syndrome ->Cord ... pathophysiology #signs ... #orthopedics #neurology
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
of the spinal cord ... - Clinical Presentation ... : Injury to the ... spinal cord (Myelopathy ... • Bilateral signs
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
Spinal Cord Disorders ... lesion: Clinical ... signs below the ... - Transverse myelitis ... MCTD, Sjogren syndrome
Weakness - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Approach To Weakness:
 • Non-neuromuscular disorder (Cardiac, pulmonary etc)
 • CNS ->
• Acute stroke syndromes ... Lesions of the spinal ... Paraneoplastic syndrome ... Lambert-Eaton - Isaacs' syndrome ... Lack of UMN/LMN signs
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
• Or brainstem syndromes ... Clonus, Babinski’s sign ... • Lhermitte’s sign ... Signs and symptoms ... (Spinal cord predominant
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
thyroid, Sjogren syndrome ... “dropping head syndrome ... - Kearns-Sayre syndrome ... - Cogan sign ... - Peek sign 2.
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
Behçet's Syndrome ... cord, and basal ... in Behcet syndrome ... adenopathy (PFAPA) syndrome ... diagnosis #management #signs