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Approach to Acid Base Disorders - Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis
1) Start with the Anion Gap (AG).
2)
pCO2. 4) The final ... Differential Diagnosis ... Respiratory Acidosis: CNS ... Respiratory Alkalosis: CNS ... Disorders #Evaluation #workup
Bell's Palsy - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook

Acute Idiopathic Unilateral Facial Nerve (CN7) Palsy
Presentation:
and Management Summary ... middle ear/skull base ... and Workup: • ... No additional workup ... sarcoid or other CNS
Acid Base Disorders - Blood Gas Interpretation

Steps for Blood Gas Interpretation: 
1. Acidemia or Alkalemia? 
2.
Acid Base Disorders ... Diagnosis: Causes ... acidosis: - CNS ... #Summary #Nephrology ... #Gas #VBG #differential
Rhombencephalitis
BACTERIAL
- Listeria (biphasic illness with bulbar dysfunction occurring later)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Pneumococcus
- Brucella
- Borrelia (Lyme Disease)
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- Influenza A FUNGAL ... opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome - brain ... Rhombencephalitis #Differential ... #Diagnosis #Causes ... #Neurology
BEE Syndromes - Non-inflammatory Causes

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

Visual or auditory symptoms in
affecting the Brain ... nervous system (CNS ... • Infiltrating base ... BEE #Syndromes #neurology ... noninflammatory #differential
Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Epidemiology:
 • Prevalence: 1-2 cases per million -
and Management Summary ... gone awry in the brain ... muscles) • Wide based ... antibody that works ... Management #treatment #neurology
Coccidioidomycosis (Coccidioides): Valley Fever - Summary Sheet
 • Morphology
 • Geography, Reservoir and Mode of Transmission
periods after rain ... /storms/earthquakes ... or excavation work ... tissue, skeleton, CNS ... #fungal
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Inhalation of spores ... especially the CNS ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... • Sinusitis • Brain ... : • Serology for