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Approach to Headaches - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Red flags (PHANTOMS):
 • Pattern change, progressively worse, papilledema
 •
papilledema • Horner syndrome ... artery tenderness, triggered ... pupil (AACG) • Systemic ... symptoms and signs ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #neurology
CNS Manifestations of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

Clinical Manifestations: Demyelinating Syndrome, Headache, Movement disorders, Seizure disorders, Aseptic
Manifestations of Systemic ... Demyelinating Syndrome ... , Headache, Movement ... Disease, PRES Pathophysiology ... Erythematosus #SLE #CNS #neurology
Emergent Causes of Headache and Associated Risk Factors
Carbon monoxide poisoning
 - Breathing in enclosed or confined
with the same symptoms ... diseases (eg, systemic ... ) - Previous chronic ... vasoconstriction syndrome ... of polycystic kidney
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
Systemic disease ... skin injury) • Neurologic ... meningitis), MCC CNS symptoms ... (headache and diplopia ... Recurrent and chronic
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
characterized by: • Headache ... mental status • Headache ... Etiology: • Pathophysiology ... Neurological symptoms ... diagnosis #management #neurology
Vasculitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

When to Consider Vasculitis:
• Purpura, ischemic skin lesions
• Mononeuritis multiplex
• Hematuria, proteinuria,
Symptoms (SX) in ... 50 years • New headache ... • Kidneys: Non-glomerular ... of headache, cognitive ... Eosinophilia, asthma, chronic
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
cough, chills, headache ... acute pulmonary, systemic ... Aspergillosis Pathophysiology ... the circulatory system ... Fluconazole SYSTEMIC
SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)

Suspect:
Clinical evidence of (fatigue, rash, photosensitivity, inflammatory arthritis, weight loss, and fever) and
PNS and CNS • Headache ... Induced Lupus: • Symptoms ... C4) • ds-DNA: Kidney ... induced SLE • Kidney ... with Lupus: • Chronic
PFAPA Syndrome - Periodic Fever, Aphthous Stomatitis, Pharyngitis, and Adenitis

EPIDEMIOLOGY:
PFAPA is the most common syndrome entailing
fever (FMF) PATHOPHYSIOLOGY ... accompanied by headache ... rashes, joint pain, headaches ... both diseases are triggered ... - chronic infantile