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Bell's Palsy - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook

Acute Idiopathic Unilateral Facial Nerve (CN7) Palsy
Presentation:
Bell's Palsy - Diagnosis ... and Management ... prevent corneal injury ... tears oint + TAPE eye ... within 4m #Bells
The Neurological Evaluation of a Comatose Patient

Definition:
 • Coma: a state of unresponsiveness; the absence of
• Mutism Pathophysiology ... : • Severe injury ... Awareness • Injury ... Test downward eye ... • Vestibulo-ocular
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
ulceration • Ocular ... : Inflammatory eye ... to local skin injury ... Genital ulcers • Eye ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency) - Diagnosis and Management

Vitamin C is required for hydroxylation of proline residues
Diagnosis and Management ... mucocutaneous changes, ocular ... • Delusions Ocular ... : • Eye dryness ... #AscorbicAcid #Pathophysiology
Chemical Eye Injury: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
Exogenous chemical to the eye and/or adnexa
 • Ammonia, sodium
Chemical Eye Injury ... EMERGENCY: immediate management ... following initial management ... #Ocular #opthalmology ... #pathophysiology
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
monophasic Pathophysiology ... Presentation: Injury ... Pleocytosis > 100 cells ... Myelitis #diagnosis #management
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
Diagnosis: • Dry eyes ... gland) biopsy • Ocular ... , B cells, and plasma ... cells around salivary ... Rheumatology #Diagnosis #Management
Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
 • Risk factors -> Incr IOP, Incr age, African-American
intra- or peri-ocular ... retinal ganglion cells ... ganglion cell injury ... factors, oxidative injury ... OpenAngle #Glaucoma #pathophysiology
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Cytomegalovirus Infections in HIV-AIDS
Preventing CMV Disease:
 • CMV end-organ disease is best
CD4 count >100 cells ... contralateral eye ... The ganciclovir ocular ... Prevention #Treatment #management