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Disease Information for Brain surgery
- Clinical Manifestations
- Signs & Symptoms
- Altered mental status Mental status change
- Central Facial Paralysis
- CNS symptoms/signs
- Facial weakness/droop, unilateral
- Hemianesthesia
- Hemiplegic Gait
- Hemisensory defects
- Numbness/one-sided
- Sudden unconsciousness
- Clinical Presentation & Variations
- Presentation/High Temperature No Infection
- Laboratory Tests
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Decreased
- BUN/Blood urea nitrogen (Lab)
- Osmolality, serum (Lab)
- Sodium, serum (Lab)
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Increased
- ADH/Antidiuretic Hormone/Vasopressin/Oxytocin level (Lab)
- CK-BB (Lab)
- CPK/CK/Creatine kinase/Creatine phosphokinase (Lab)
- Diagnostic Test Results
- Other Tests & Procedures
- Lumbar puncture/CSF low pressure
- Pathology
- PATH/Gliosis/Brain/CNS
- EKG (ECG)
- EKG/Prolonged QT interval (ECG)
- X-RAY
- Xray/Skull Air or gas shadows
- Associated Diseases & Rule outs
- Associated Disease & Complications
- Amnesia
- Brain abscess
- Central diabetes insipidus
- Cerebral salt-wasting syndrome
- Hemiparesis
- Hemiplegia
- Hyponatremia
- Hypo-Osmolar State
- Inappropriate ADH secretion syndrome
- Jacksonian/posttraumatic epilepsy
- Meningitis
- Intracranial Lesion
- Spastic Hemiplegia
- Disease Mechanism & Classification
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- Pathophysiology/Blood-brain barrier leak
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- Drug Therapy - Indication
- RX/Corticosteroid (Cortisone)
- RX/Dexamethasone (Decadron)
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- NEJM (The New England Journal of Medicine)