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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 Temporal: Rapid ... Eyecare (prevent corneal ... tears oint + TAPE eye ... #Management #Treatment
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
95% of cases (Cornelia ... of the steroid treatment ... Treatment of GCA ... required +/- prompt ophthalmology ... #Diagnosis #Management
Optic Neuritis - Diagnosis and Management
 • Epidemiology: Female (75%), 18-50 years,
caucasian
 • Symptoms: Moderate visual
and Management ... caucasian • Symptoms ... Unilateral • Signs: RAPD ... #Management #treatment ... #rheumatology #ophthalmology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
: Inflammatory eye ... Genital ulcers • Eye ... Arthritis, AS Treatment ... inhibitors • Uveitis- Ophthalmology ... #management #signs
Pulmonary Renal Syndromes - OnePager Summary
Autoimmune ANCA vasculitis (AAV): GPA (granulomatous with polyangiitis), EGPA (eosinophilic granulomatosis
vasculitis (AAV): GPA ... subglottic stenosis) in GPA ... • Inflammatory eye ... or serologies + symptoms ... #management #treatment
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
increase in CD4+ cells ... Confusion, visual symptoms ... Hepatic flare, rapid ... IRIS with severe symptoms ... #Management
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
cord resulting in rapid ... Bilateral signs and/or symptoms ... Pleocytosis > 100 cells ... Transverse Myelitis Treatment ... #management #neurology
Summary of Oncologic Emergencies

Neutropenic fever:
- Fever + ANC < 500 → start cefepime ± vancomycin (if
malignancies, “rapid-turnover ... high LDH, low Ca ... “big & sticky” cells ... Calcitonin (rapid ... Oncology #HemeOnc #Diagnosis
Relapsing Polychondritis

What is it?
Recurrent inflammation of the cartilage in the body (Autoimmune disorder)

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
ethnicities Symptoms ... vessels (aorta) • Eyes ... Polyarteritis Nodosa, GCA ... affected tissue Treatment ... #management