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The typical clinical features of _____ include a progressive and symmetric muscle weakness and absent or depressed deep tendon reflexes.
What is Guillain-Barré Syndrome?
This autoimmune disorder is characterized by weakness and fatigability of skeletal muscles due to autoantibody-mediated dysfunction at the neuromuscular junction.
What is myasthenia gravis?
This condition is the most common immune-mediated inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system characterized by multi focal areas of demyelination with loss of oligodendrocytes and astroglial scarring.
What is multiple sclerosis?
This medication-induced hyperkinetic movement disorder is associated with the use of dopamine receptor-blocking agents, including antipsychotic drugs and two antiemetic agents.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
In a patient with the carpal tunnel syndrome, this test involves tapping over a compressed nerve at the wrist reproduces pain and parenthesis, proximal or distal to the site of compression.
What is Tinel’s test?
This term is used to describe the classic lab finding of CSF in patients with GBS.
What is albuminocytologic dissociation?
Patients diagnosed with myasthenia gravis should receive a CT or MRI of the chest to evaluate for this associated/positive abnormality.
What is a thymoma?
This is the test of choice to support the clinical diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
What is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)?
Older age and duration of exposure to this generation of antipsychotics are the most important risk factors for tardive dyskinesia.
What are first generation antipsychotics?
This vitamin deficiency’s most common neurological findings are symmetric parenthesis or numbness and gait abnormalities.
What is vitamin B12 deficiency?
This IV treatment is effective for disease-modifying treatment of GBS in patients with severe or progressing symptoms.
What is IVIG?
Ocular symptoms are the most common in MG however this eye function is always normal in MG, helping in the differentiation from other ocular disorders.
What is pupillary function?
This is considered a typical presentation for a clinically isolated syndrome of MS and patients will present with painful, monocular visual loss consisting of visual blurring or scotoma.
What is optic neuritis?
Manifestations of this tardive disorder may include repeated les-crossing, weight-shifting, or stepping in place.
What is Tardive Akathisia?
Consider this diagnosis in patients with facials palsy, erythema migrants, and arthritis.
What is Lymes disease?
This infection is the most common precipitation of GBS and is identified in approximately 25% of GBS cases.
What is Campylobacter jejuni?
This neuromuscular junction transmission disorder is frequently confused with GBS and classically presents with slowly progressive proximal leg weakness and difficulty walking.
What is Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome?
This oral treatment is the preferred outpatient regimen for an MS exacerbation/attack, written over three to seven days.
What is 1000 mg methylprednisolone?
A very common effect most likely due to the hypokinetic effects of the antipsychotic drug having caused a delay in the appearance of tardive dyskinesia.
What is unmasking?
This chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease (characterized by diminished lacrimal and salivary gland function) well frequently present with distal paresthesia and mild weakness.
What is Sjögren disease?
This GBS variant is characterized by ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, and areflexia.
What is Miller-Fisher Syndrome?
This medication is considered the initial therapy for most patients with mild to moderate MG.
What is pyridostigmine?
This is a transient sensory symptom frequently encountered with MS flares is described as an electric shock radiating down the spine or into the limbs most often after flexion of the neck.
What is Lhermitte sign?
Involuntary movements that are proximal and large amplitude with a flinging or kicking character. Although it is present at rest, it becomes more prominent with action.
What is Ballism?
The winningest program in the history of college football, this team defeated ohio over thanksgiving weekend to remain undefeated and move on to the Big10 championship.
Who is Michigan University?
(will also accept, ”Who is the greatest football team in college football history?”)