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Differential diagnosis for toxic/metabolic encephalopathies - Patterns on Brain Imaging

Cynthia Czawlytko, MD @drcyncity

#Differential #diagnosis #encephalopathies #encephalopathy
Differential diagnosis ... - Patterns on Brain ... imaging #patterns #MRI ... #Neurology #pathology ... #diseases #radiology
Pseudobulbar Affect
Characteristics (These episodes usually cause distress and impairment in occupational or social functioning):
 - Extreme
laughter and crying; Diseases ... ), Alzheimer's Disease ... Strokes, Traumatic Brain ... Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease ... Pseudobulbar #Affect #neurology
CNS Ring-Enhancing Lesions - Immunocompromised vs Immunocompetent
Multiple Ring-Enhancing Lesions:
 • Toxoplasmosis (CD4 < 100)
 • Other
lymphoproliferative disease ... • Metastatic disease ... demyelinating diseases ... #causes #radiology ... #neurology
BEE Syndromes - Immune-mediated conditions affecting the brain, eye, and ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in conjunction
affecting the brain ... and less common diseases ... Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease ... polychondritis • Behcet disease ... BEE #Syndromes #neurology
Confabulation
What? Honest Lie.  
No incoming sensory information + Filling of the blanks with different information
Diseases: Korsakoff ... Syndrome, Traumatic Brain ... Injury, Alzheimer's Disease ... #differential #diagnosis ... #causes #neurology
Classification of Diabetes Insipidus

Central or neurogenic diabetes insipidus:
 - Congenital - Structural malformations affecting the hypothalamus
granulomatous diseases ... Primary renal disease ... ), Sickle cell disease ... the psychiatric disease ... Classification #Types #Nephrology
BEE Syndromes - Non-inflammatory Causes

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

Visual or auditory symptoms in
affecting the Brain ... and less common diseases ... and treatment can ... infections • Lyme disease ... BEE #Syndromes #neurology
MAGIC DR – a handy mnemonic used to remember the potential causes of a cerebral ring
the potential causes ... Demyelinating disease ... (eg. tumefactive ... Radiation necrosis #Diagnosis ... RingEnhancing #Lesions #Brain
Common causes of Acute Kidney Injury AKI - Differential Diagnosis
HEMODYNAMIC
 • Cardiac failure: Impaired forward flow,
Common causes of ... - Differential Diagnosis ... • Primary GNs: Disease ... Due to systemic disease ... #nephrology
Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome (STSS)
Complication of invasive GAS disease characterized by shock & MOF → occurs
of invasive GAS disease ... GAS in 30% of cases ... ; 50% in nec fasc ... Diagnostic Criteria ... BIDMC Infectious Diseases