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NINDS Diagnostic Criteria for Guillain Barre Syndrome 
Features Required for Guillain-Barré Syndrome:
 • Progressive muscle weakness
Criteria for Guillain Barre ... , Mild sensory symptoms ... Diagnosis: • Marked ... hexacarbon abuse • Acute ... #criteria #neurology
Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
Myelitis, Trauma, Tumor ... Poliomyelitis, Guillain-Barre ... syndrome, Mononeuritis ... heavy metals), Critical ... differential #diagnosis #neurology
Acute Spinal Cord Injuries: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Anterior Cord Syndrome -> Anterior spinal artery
Pathogenesis and clinical ... injury, often from vascular ... herniation or tumour ... pathophysiology #signs #symptoms ... #orthopedics #neurology
Growth Hormone Excess - Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Acromegaly and gigantism share the same pathophysiology
Pathogenesis and clinical ... Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ... arrhythmia • Valvular ... diagnosis #signs #symptoms ... #endocrinology
Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
109 mm Hg) with clinical ... Causes: • Vascular ... Vasculitis • Endocrinologic ... Neurologic disorders ... , and Guillain-Barre
Myoedema in Hypothyroidism on Physical Exam

Hypothyroidism is a clinical syndrome resulting from the production, secretion or
syndrome resulting ... symptoms, due to ... elevation in the muscular ... #video #neurology ... #endocrinology
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
Guillain-Barré Syndrome ... (GBS) Acute autoimmune ... transplantation CLINICAL ... than one after symptom ... #management #neurology
Cauda Equina Syndrome Overview

Cauda Equina Syndrome:
 • Prevalence: 1:33,000-100,000 ppl/yr
 • Incidence: 1.5-3.4 million ppl/yr
 •
spine • MCC- acute ... spine L1-L5 Symptoms ... lumbar stenosis • Vascular ... cord • Guillain-Barre ... diagnosis #causes #neurology
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
association • M > F Clinical ... skin injury) • Neurologic ... and diplopia) • Vascular ... (Clinical Dx). ... interferon alfa, or tumor
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
may precede the neurologic ... Neurological symptoms ... : Acute onset 2 ... cortical lesions • Vascular ... , ADEM, Acute toxic