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Summary of drugs
Pharm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| CJD | rapidly progressive dementia |
| CJD | vacuolated cortex |
| ALS | loss of (upper) motor neurons |
| ALS | Astrocytosis |
| ALS | Sphincter control, sensation, intellectual function are not affected |
| ALS | Denervation atrophy |
| Guillain Barre | rapidly ascending paralysis that occurs over weeks |
| Huntington's | choreiform movements, character change, or psychotic behavior |
| Huntington's | atrophy of the caudate |
| frontotemporal dementia | has a slow, insidious onset marked in the early stages by personality changes, then progressive loss of speech (fluent or nonfluent aphasia), apathy, and finally mutism |
| Guillain Barre | rapidly ascending symmetric motor weakness and distal sensory impairments |
| ALS | progressive and symmetric nature of this patient's disease |
| Guillain Barre | absence of deeep tendon reflexes |
| Guillain Barre | symmetric really rapid ascending progressive weakness in legs and then arms (ascending) absence of deep tendon reflexes CN involvement with ocular motility loss |