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- Which type of hemorrhagic hemorrhage?- Caused by hypertension, trauma, illicit drug use
- Cerebral palsy pathophysiology:- Focal white matter injuries are produced at a specific locus in the white matter such as: _____ _____ _____- _____ _____ (PVL): _____ of the white matter near the lateral ventricles, most often occurring in _____ infants
- Which type of cerebral edema?- Irreversible increase in extracellular fluid caused by BBB disruption- Increased vascular permeability and lack of tight junctions
- ALS clinical features:- _____ motor neurons: due to degeneration of _____ motor neurons --> _____ with slowness, _____ and _____- _____ motor neurons: due to the degeneration of _____ motor neurons in the brainstem and spinal cord --> weakness, _____ and _____
- PD pathophysiology:- _____ _____ in basal ganglia- Disruptions in the connections to the _____ and motor cortex
- Paraneoplastic hypercalcemia:- Tumor secretion of _____- Osteolytic metastases with local release of cytokines (including _____ activating factors)- Tumor production of _____
- Avoiding immune destruction is mainly mediated by which cells?
- Which type of hemorrhagic hemorrhage?- Aneurysm rupture causing sudden excruciating headache
- Which type of hemorrhagic hemorrhage?- Blunt trauma may tear the middle meningeal artery- AKA extradural hematoma
- Idiopathic NPH:- Cerebrovascular disease: _____- Decreased CSF _____- Congenital
- Primary TBI:- Tissue shearing at the interface of grey and white matter known as _____ _____ _____- Causes cerebral _____ and _____
- Acute mild TBI:- Pathophysiology: _____ injury causing _____ changes- Clinical features: _____ and _____, often _____ loss of consciousness
- What is the focal symptom of elevated ICP, characterized by displacement of brain tissue through openings in the skull?
- At what mean arterial pressure does autoregulation fail?
- Compensated or Decompensated cirrhosis?- Patients with cirrhosis with or without gastroesophageal varices
- Compensated or Decompensated cirrhosis?- Patients with cirrhosis who have developed complications of cirrhosis- Variceal hemorrhage, ascites, SBP, hepatic encephalopathy, HCC