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Approach to Headaches - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Red flags (PHANTOMS):
 • Pattern change, progressively worse, papilledema
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progressively worse, papilledema ... • Meningeal signs ... ) • Systemic symptoms ... and signs (e.g. ... Space-occupying brain lesion
Enlarged optic nerve sheath diameter and crescent sign in 30 yo female patient reporting 3 months
diameter and crescent sign ... reporting 3 months of headaches ... @SAlerhand #Papilledema ... #IIH #Idiopathic ... Hypertension #Ocular #POCUS
Signs and Symptoms Associated With Different Headache Etiologies
 • Nonfocal mental status changes - Meningitis, encephalitis,
Signs and Symptoms ... funduscopy or papilledema ... ), IIH #headache ... #signs #symptoms ... #clues #differential
Papilledema on Ocular POCUS

This 27yo female presents with an intractable headache. Which of the following do
POCUS This 27yo ... an intractable headache ... ultrasound demonstrated signs ... #POCUS #IIH #clinical ... #ultrasound #Ophthalmology
Photophobia and Headache - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Why?
• The coexistence of photophobia and headache suggests the potential
- Differential ... symptoms - Miosis ... meningeal irritation signs ... #differential # ... diagnosis #ophthalmology
13 Dangerous Causes of Headache:
 - subarachnoid hemorrhage: family history, PCKD, known berry aneurysm, sudden and
Dangerous Causes of Headache ... dependent position, papilledema ... shoulder girdle symptoms ... thrombophilia, neurologic signs ... Dangerous #Deadly #Differential
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
(headache and diplopia ... Behcet disease) Differential ... inhibitors • Uveitis- Ophthalmology ... diagnosis #management #signs ... #symptoms #rheumatology
Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) definition: Most common systemic inflammatory vasculitis in older adults
systemic sx + signs ... very remarkable w/differential ... claudication, headaches ... required due to skip lesions ... required +/- prompt ophthalmology