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Differential Diagnosis

▸ Click on each chief complain to expand the differential diagnosis and diagnostic clues.

Chief Complain   ▸  Headache   ▸  Dizziness   ▸  Loss of Consciousness / Syncope   ▸   Confusion / Memory Loss   ▸  Numbness / Weakness   ▸  Fatigue

Differential Diagnoses for Headache Migraine ▸ Flashes of light ▸ Photofobia ▸ Nausea and vomiting ▸ Sensitivity to sounds ▸ Weakness and numbness Cluster Headache ▸ Temporal headache ▸ Ipsilateral rhinorrhea, eye tearing and redness ▸ Several episodes ▸ Lasts aprox. 45 min Tension Headache ▸ ▸ Temporal Arteritis ▸ Severe, intermittent temporal headache ▸ Ipsilateral blurred visio ▸ Ipsilateral jaw pain Trigeminal Neuralgia ▸ Stabbing pain in cheek ▸Episodes last 2-4 min Subarachnoid Hemorrhage ▸ Severe headache ▸ Vomiting ▸ Confusion ▸ Hemiplegia ▸ Nuchal rigidity Sinusitis ▸ Frontal headache ▸ Fever ▸ Nasal discharge ▸ Pain on palpation of sinuses ▸ History of allergies Meningitis ▸ Severe headache ▸ Photophobia ▸ Nuchal rigidity ▸ Positive Kerning & Brudzinki Signs Pseudotumor cerebri ▸ Pulsatile headache ▸ Blurred vision ▸ Obese woman Differential Diagnoses for Dizziness Meniere Disease ▸ Intermittent episodes ▸ Hearing loss ▸ Nausea ▸ Tinnitus Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) ▸ Vestibular Neuronitis ▸ History of URI ▸ No hearing loss Laberynthitis ▸ History of URI ▸ Hearing loss Differential Diagnoses for Loss of Consciousness Orthostatic Hypotension ▸ Hypoglycemia ▸ Arrhythmia ▸ Aortic Stenosis ▸ Seizure ▸ Vasovagal Syncope ▸ |- Differential Diagnoses for Confusion / Memory Loss Vascular Dementia ▸ Alzheimer Disease ▸ Normal pressure hydrocephalus ▸ Chronic Subdural Hematoma ▸ Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease ▸ Hypoglycemia ▸ Differential Diagnoses for Numbness / Weakness Stroke ▸ Transient Ischemic Attack ▸ Guillain-Barre Syndrome ▸ Multiple sclerosis ▸ Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy ▸ Myasthenia Gravis ▸ Todd paralysis ▸ Hypoglycemia ▸ Differential Diagnoses for Fatigue Depression ▸ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ▸ Colon Cancer ▸ Hypothyroidism ▸ Anemia ▸