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Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
Reconstitution Inflammatory ... • 10-20% of HIV-infected ... noncompliance • Clinical ... initiation Clinical ... weeks for most OI
Bell's Palsy - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook

Acute Idiopathic Unilateral Facial Nerve (CN7) Palsy
Presentation:
- Atypical Clinical ... (Ramsay-Hunt), HIV ... Imaging (if atypical symptoms ... sarcoid or other CNS inflammatory ... tears oint + TAPE eye
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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- Differential Diagnosis ... • IRIS might ... cells per μL • Diagnosis ... should be based on clinical ... patients with IRIS
Neurological Manifestations of Tuberculosis
Spinal Arachnoiditis & Polyradiculopathy:
 • Subacute onset of limb weakness, bladder/bowel dysfunction, muscle
Reconstitution Inflammatory ... Syndrome (IRIS) ... : • In HIV+, usually ... #Tuberculosis #diagnosis ... differential #TB #neurology
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
neurological lesion: Clinical ... , HIV, CMV, HTLV ... Inflammatory: ... #spinal #cord #spinalcord ... #neurology #differential
BEE Syndromes - Non-inflammatory Causes

Immune-mediated conditions affecting the Brain, Eye, and Ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in
Syndromes - Non-inflammatory ... affecting the Brain, Eye ... pachymeningitis • HIV ... MRI lesions and clinical ... BEE #Syndromes #neurology
Diplopia - Double Vision - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Clinical Pearls:
 • Diplopia is almost always binocular.
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- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Clinical ... • Neurologic ... symptoms suggest ... Cranial Nerve IV
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... Disease (25-75%): Inflammatory ... eye disease (panuveitis ... skin injury) • Neurologic ... Genital ulcers • Eye
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
nervous system • Inflammatory ... patients with clinically ... stimulation Clinical ... • Acute: - IV ... #management #neurology
Lesions of the Spinal cord - Spinal Cord Syndromes

Spinal cord lesions can result in permanent neurologic
result in permanent neurologic ... syphilis, and HIV ... unilateral) #SpinalCord ... #differential #diagnosis ... #neurology