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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 ... - Atypical Clinical ... sarcoid or other CNS ... #Palsy #Diagnosis ... #Management #Treatment
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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HIV / AIDS - Differential ... • IRIS might ... should be based on clinical ... Antimicrobial treatment ... hearing loss, palsy
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
of HIV/AIDS patients ... be present: • AIDS ... pleural effusions, CNS ... skin lesions, ocular ... Zoster flare, ocular
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
that results in CNS ... - Clinical Presentation ... Pleocytosis > 100 cells ... Treatment: • ... #neurology #differential
HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND)

Definition:
HIV-Associated Neurocognitive disorders categories:
• Asymptomatic neurocognitive impairment
• Mild neurocognitive impairment
• HIV dementia

Pathophysiology:
HIV frequently
and infects the CNS ... in the CNS ○ ... Diagnosis: MRI ... disorder #dementia #AIDS ... #Neurology
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

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

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
gland) biopsy • Ocular ... ducts Clinical ... neuropathy, transverse myelitis ... • 8%-27% for CNS ... Adenocarcinoma Treatment
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
has five major clinical ... yeast • At risk: AIDS ... especially the CNS ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... osteoarticular, pulmonary, ocular