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Approach to Headaches - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Red flags (PHANTOMS):
 • Pattern change, progressively worse, papilledema
 •
) • Systemic symptoms ... and signs (e.g. ... infection (e.g., meningitis ... arteritis • Acute ... #neurology #PHANTOMS
Photophobia and Headache - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Why?
• The coexistence of photophobia and headache suggests the potential
- Autonomic symptoms ... Traumatic brain injury ... meningeal irritation signs ... : - Acute angle-closure ... ophthalmology #Neurology
Causes of Dizziness - Vertigo - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
True Vertigo - Illusion of Rotary Movement
Peripheral Vestibular
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... • Meniere's Disease ... Temporal Bone Fracture ... symptoms/signs, ... Infection • Meningitis
CNS Infections - Viral Encephalitis and Bacterial Meningitis - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Viral Encephalitis:
MCC: Enteroviruses (e.g., coxsackievirus
Coltivirus Symptoms ... • Common clinical ... : • Acute meningeal ... signs (fever, nuchal ... differential #diagnosis #neurology
Lyme Disease: Early and Late Clinical manifestations
Stage 1. Localized
 • EM appears 7-14 days at the
and Late Clinical ... myalgia, arthralgia, headache ... SSX (lymphocytic meningitis ... #diagnosis #signs ... #symptoms
Emergent Causes of Headache and Associated Risk Factors
Carbon monoxide poisoning
 - Breathing in enclosed or confined
with the same symptoms ... eg, furnaces) Meningitis ... collagen vascular diseases ... - Traumatic injury ... #redflags #signs
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
to local skin injury ... ) • Neurologic ... lesions, aseptic meningitis ... (headache and diplopia ... diagnosis #management #signs
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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should be based on clinical ... and radiographic features ... Tuberculous Meningitis ... Demyelinating disease ... Cryptococcal Meningitis
Spinal Cord Disorders - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Spinal cord neurological lesion:
Clinical findings:
 • Symptoms and signs below
neurological lesion: Clinical ... and signs below ... compression by fractured ... Sarcoidosis, Behcet disease ... differential #algorithm
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
characterized by: • Headache ... mental status • Headache ... Shock, Autoimmune disease ... Neurological symptoms ... : Acute onset 2