Neurology — Flashcards

Flashcard 71: _____ partial seizures are characterized by impaired consciousness (intact or impaired)

Answer: Complex

Flashcard 72: _____ disease is characterized by periodic sharp wave complexes on EEG

Answer: Creutzfeldt-Jakob

Flashcard 73: _____ lung disease may be caused by poor muscular effort, such as polio, myasthenia gravis and Guillain-Barre syndrome

Answer: Restrictive

Flashcard 74: Bleeding in a _____ haemorrhage may come from a ruptured aneurysm, arteriovenous malformations or trauma to cortical vessels.

Answer: subarachnoid

Extra: • **Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH):** Usually arterial (Ruptured Berry Aneurysm, AVMs, or traumatic injury to cortical vessels). • **Subdural Hemorrhage (SDH):** Classically caused by rupture of **bridging veins**. • **Epidural Hemorrhage (EDH):** Classically caused by rupture of the **middle meningeal artery**.

Flashcard 75: _____ syndrome is caused by:- occlusion of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery - most commonly due to traumatic vascular dissection / occlusion of the distal vertebral artery

Answer: Lateral medullary (Wallenberg)

Flashcard 76: Neurofibromatosis type _____ is also known as von Recklinghausen disease

Answer: I

Flashcard 77: Strokes involving the lenticulostriate artery may cause paralysis and sensory loss of the _____-lateral face, upper limb, and lower limb

Answer: contra

Flashcard 78: _____ syndrome seen in excess chronic alcohol consumption is caused by a widespread demyelination of the corpus callosum, optic tracts and cerebellar peduncles.

Answer: Marchiafava-Bignami

Flashcard 79: Paramedian thalamic syndrome is a _____ circulation infarction that occurs due to the involvement of artery of percheron

Answer: posterior

Flashcard 80: _____ aneurysms located in the lenticulostriate vessels of the basal ganglia are commonly associated with hypertension

Answer: Charcot-Bouchard