What Is My Neuro. Disease?
Seizure associated with fever that is not the result of intracranial infection or metabolic imbalance
What is febrile seizure?
Opacity of the lens of the eye that is present at birth
What is Congenital Cataract?
Self limiting condition that involves avascular necrosis of the femoral head.
What is Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease?
This anatomical difference causes children to be more susceptible to Otitis Media.
What is shorter/ wider eustachian tubes?
S/sx include eye redness, edema, tearing, discharge, pain, and itching.
What is Conjunctivitis?
A defect in brain development resulting in small/ missing brain hemispheres, skull, and scalp with poor prognosis
What is Anencephaly?
Infection of fluid in the middle ear
What is Otitis Media?
Foot resembles the head of a golf club
What is clubfoot?
Risk factors include hx of recent infections (respiratory, sinus, ear), recent LP, severe head injury/ skull fx, congenital structural abnormality, neurosurgical intervention
What is Bacterial Meningitis?
S/ Sx include fever, fussiness, crying while lying down, batting/ tugging at ears, rolling head from side to side, poor feeding, difficulty sleeping or awakening at night
What is Acute Otitis Media?
Inflammation of the meninges, usually caused by a virus
What is Aseptic Meningitis?
Infection and inflammation of the skin of the external ear canal
What is Otitis Externa?
Neural tube fails to close resulting in an external sac on the spine that encases the meninges, spinal fluid, and sometimes the nerves
What is Myelomeningocele?
Child cannot rise from floor normally d/t weakness associated with Muscular Dystrophy.
What is + Gower's sign?
S/sx associated with this disease include recent hx of respiratory illness, HA, photophobia, vomiting, stiff neck, irritability, rash.
What is Bacterial Meningitis?
Premature closure of cranial sutures that requires surgical correction
What is Craniosynostosis?
Rapid growth of retinal blood vessels in the premature infant.
What is Retinopathy of Prematurity?
A range of non-specific clinical sx characterized by abnormal motor pattern and postures caused by non-progressive abnormal brain function.
What is Cerebral Palsy?
Risk factors for this disease include LBW, prematurity, high light intensity, hypothermia, and the duration/ concentration of supplemental O2
What is Retinopathy of Prematurity?
Hx of prematurity and LBW with current s/sx of muscle weakness, spasticity, and ataxia
What is Cerebral Palsy?
Recent use of salicylate products to treat viral illness that causes brain swelling, liver failure, and death
What is Reye Syndrome
The stenosis or obstruction of the tear duct causing chronic tearing and mucoid/ mucopurulent drainage.
What is Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction?
X-linked recessive genetic disorder that results in progressive muscle weakness and wasting
What is Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy?
Arched back with hyperextension of neck and head seen with meningitis.
What is opisthotonic position?
S/sx associated with this include irritability, HA, changes in LOC, vomiting, poor feeding, increased head circumference/ wide, bulging fontanels, +Macewan sign.
What is Hydrocephaly?