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Causes of Dizziness - Vertigo - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
True Vertigo - Illusion of Rotary Movement
Peripheral Vestibular
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm True ... symptoms/signs, ... Infection • Meningitis ... #Algorithm #Causes
Parinaud's Syndrome
What?
 - Impaired upgaze
 - Light-near dissociation
 - Convergence retraction nystagmus
 - Eyelid retraction (Collier's
- Pineal region ... → "setting sun sign ... " - Vascular disease ... Parinauds #Syndrome #diagnosis ... #pineal #neurology
Causes of Encephalopathy - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hyperacute:
 - Primary Neurologic: Vascular (IS, ICH), Seizure, Migraine, Trauma
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Hyperacute ... bacterial/viral meningitis ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #Algorithm #Causes
Traditionally, we have been taught to examine for Kernig’s and Brudzinski’s signs when examining patients with
with suspected meningitis ... The JAMA rational ... #Diagnosis #Kernigs ... #PhysicalExam # ... Meningitis
Causes of Seizures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Unprovoked - Epilepsy:
 • Focal: Simple, Complex
 • Generalized: Absence,
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Unprovoked ... • Infectious: Meningitis ... #Algorithm #Causes ... #neurology
Parinaud's syndrome
What?
 • Light-near dissociation (tectal pupils)
 • Convergence retraction nystagmus
 • Eyelid retraction (Collier's sign)
• Pineal region ... "setting sun" sign ... • Vascular disease ... Parinauds #syndrome #neurology ... #diagnosis
Causes of Secondary / Provoked Seizures - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Febrile
Infection
 • Sepsis
 • Encephalitis
 • Meningitis
Metabolic
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Febrile ... Encephalitis • Meningitis ... Alcohol/drug Vascular ... Provoked #Seizures #Neurology
Approach to Headaches - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Red flags (PHANTOMS):
 • Pattern change, progressively worse, papilledema
 •
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Red ... • Meningeal signs ... infection (e.g., meningitis ... #Algorithm #neurology
Causes of Dementia / Cognitive Impairment - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Affecting Multiple Domains
 • Depression
 • Delirium
Decline
- Differential Diagnosis ... Algorithm Affecting ... Hydrocephalus • Chronic Meningitis ... Progression - Vascular ... CognitiveImpairment #Dementia #Neurology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
skin injury) • Neurologic ... lesions, aseptic meningitis ... and diplopia) • Vascular ... ) Differential Diagnosis ... #management #signs