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First Generation Anti-Psychotics: Mechanisms and Side Effects
Typical/Conventional Anti-Psychotics - Examples: Haloperidol, Chlorpromazine

ACh M1 antagonist - Block
limbs caused by chronic ... bradykinesia/akinesia • Acute ... FirstGeneration #Mechanisms #SideEffects ... #pharmacology #
Chronic Hypertensive Retinopathy: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

Ophthalmic Artery Hypertension
Stage 1: Mild/vasoconstrictive
 • Acute and chronic vasospasm
Chronic Hypertensive ... vasoconstrictive • Acute ... and chronic vasospasm ... #Retinopathy #pathophysiology ... signs #symptoms #complications
Mixed Urinary Incontinence: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

Urgency Urinary Incontinence (UUI) -> Urinary leakage preceded by a
tumour, stone, BPH ... Incr PVR if a complication ... Incontinence #Mixed #Pathophysiology ... Signs #Symptoms #Urology
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings

Hormonal alterations (result of aging process)
    ->
Hydronephrosis, Acute ... or chronic renal ... bladder stones #BPH ... Hyperplasia #Prostate #Pathophysiology ... #Urology #Signs
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Pathogenesis and Medications
Aging
 -> Increased Testosterone -> Testosterone metabolized into DHT by type
inflammation #BPH ... Hyperplasia #Prostate #Pathophysiology ... #Medications #Pharmacology ... #Urology
Mastoiditis: Pathogenesis and clinical findings

Acute or Chronic Otitis Media -> 
Stage 1: Hyperemeia of the mastoid
clinical findings Acute ... or Chronic Otitis ... #Mastoiditis #pathophysiology ... symptoms #diagnosis #otology
Cholesteatoma (of middle ear): Pathogenesis and clinical findings
 • Congenital trapping of keratinizing epithelium in middle
Signs / Symptoms / Complications ... inflammation • Acute ... Mastoiditis • Chronic ... Cholesteatoma #MiddleEar #pathophysiology ... signs #diagnosis #complications
Benzodiazepine (BZD) withdrawal: clinical findings and complications

 • Activation of ACC and OFC -> Feelings of
clinical findings and complications ... Activity -> Incr BP ... BZD #withdrawal #pharmacology ... #pathophysiology