Which is not true about febrile convulsions?
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Occurs in children aged from six months to five years.
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Often involve other children in the family
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Simple febrile seizures are more common
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Usually occurs after drop of fever.
The following anticonvulsant treatment is not appropriate?
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ACTH for infantile spasm.
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Ethosuximide for absence seizures
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Phenytoin as first choice for absence seizures
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Sodium valproate for primary generalized tonic clonic seizures
Find the statement which characterizes bacterial meningitis in infancy.
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Convulsions never occur
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CSF protein may be normal
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Neck rigidity is absent
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Neisseria meningitides is commonest cause
Acute bacterial meningitis cannot cause
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Acute adrenal failure
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Blindness
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Deafness
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Decrease sugar and protein
In aseptic meningitis, protein and glucose CSF show:
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Increased protein and decreased glucose
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Increased protein and glucose
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Normal glucose and protein may increase
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Normal protein and decreased glucose,
In acute bacterial meningitis, the CSF protein and glucose will show:
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Increased protein and decreased glucose.
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Increased protein and glucose.
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Normal protein and decreased glucose.
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Normal protein and glucose.
Flaccid paralysis is not seen in
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Acute infectious polyneuritis
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Cerebral diplegia
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Poliomyelitis
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Werdnig Hoffmann disease
One of the following is not a feature of Werdnig Hoffman disease:
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Choking and dysphagia.
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Mental retardation
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Muscle wasting
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Tongue fasciculations.
Hypotonia without significant weakness is a characteristic of:
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Down's syndrome
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy
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Guillain-Barre syndrome
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Werdnig-Hoffinann disease.
Select the true statement regarding Guillain-Barre syndrome:
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Is caused by lesions in the anterior horn cells.
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It is genetically determined.
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Mechanical ventilation may be needed
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Respiratory muscles are never affected.
In Guillain-Barre syndrome, Which is false ?
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Ascending paralysis.
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Asymmetrical paralysis
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IV immunoglobulin is one of the lines of therapy.
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Sensory manifestations may be present
Which statement is not suggestive of Guillain-Barre syndrome?
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Acute onset of paresthesia in lower extremities.
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Elevation of blood pressure may occur
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Marked weakness and tenderness of muscles.
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Plasmapharesis is the initial treatment of choice
Characteristic features of upper motor neurone lesion include:
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Ankle Clonus
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Fasciculation
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Hyporeflexia
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Muscle hypertrophy
A false statement about Duchenne muscular dystrophy is:
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Cardiomyopathy is an important cause of death.
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Creatine phosphokinase (CPK) is highly elevated.
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EMG shows neuropathic changes.
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The gait is usually waddling.
Contraindications to performing a lumbar puncture does not include
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Suspected mass lesion of the brain
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Symptoms and signs of impending cerebral herniation
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Skin infection at the site of the lumbar puncture
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Thrombocytopenia with a platelet count <50×109/L
The most common type of cerebral palsy (CP) associated with seizures is
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Ataxic CP
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Spastic diplegia
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Spastic hemiplegia
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Spastic quadriplegia
Which of the following is the drug of choice for treating infantile spasm?
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Phenobarbitone
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Phenytoin
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Sodium valproate
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Steroids
The most common precipitant of status epilepticus in children is
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CNS infection
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Fever
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Medication change
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Trauma
Status epilepticus is defined as continuous seizure activity or recurrent seizure activity without regaining of consciousness lasting for more than
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5 min
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15 min
33%
30 min
33%
45 min