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Meningitis
Rheumatoid meningitis presenting with a stroke-like attack (RMSA) is a rare manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). When the patients arrive within the time-window for recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) infusion therapy, no diagnostic protocol has been established. A 55-year-old woman was brought[…][ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
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Scorpion Sting
[…] potentiate venom toxicity, and should be avoided; atropine is used to combat parasympathetic effects scorpion sting A toxic systemic response to scorpion venom Clinical SOB, opisthotonus[medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]
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Gaucher Disease
Type 2 GD patients suffer significant progressive neurological impairment, including spasticity, opisthotonus, seizure, and apnea.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
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Tetanus
During hospitalization, the patient's clinical conditions worsened rapidly, and, although in absence of the classic clinical presentation (trisma, nuchal rigidity, and opisthotonus[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
The diagnosis of tetanus was clinically made after the appearance of generalized spastic contractions with opisthotonus.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
The diagnosis of generalized tetanus was made on the basis of generalized contractures with opisthotonus, trismus, and autonomic nervous system dysfunction.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
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Tetanus Neonatorum
[…] due to trismus and an inability to swallow, excessive crying caused by hunger, rigidity and generalized muscle spasms induced by touch, including those of the face, and opisthotonus[symptoma.com]
Related Concepts SNOMET-CT Tetanus neonatorum (disorder) Tetanic opisthotonus (disorder) Age at onset of clinical finding (observable entity) 29.0 days ICD-10-CM Alphabetical[icd.codes]
Opisthotonus Kekakuan otot-otot yang menunjang tubuh : otot punggung, otot leher, trunk muscle dan sebagainya.[kampusdokter.blogspot.com]
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Strychnine Poisoning
The clinical features mimic tetanus with sense of suffocation, twitching of muscles, followed by tetanic convulsions and opisthotonus, each lasting half to two minutes.[medchrome.com]
A phenomenon, called opisthotonus may also occur, in which severe contraction of the paraspinal muscles causes a characteristic arching posture of the neck and back.[calpoison.org]
This may manifest as painful grimacing (the sardonic smile of risus sardonicus ) or back arching ( opisthotonus ).[lifeinthefastlane.com]
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Bilirubin Encephalopathy
[…] and hypotonia followed by hypertonia are some of the earliest symptoms seen in acute disease, whereas abnormal extension of the neck (retrocollis), generalized aching and opisthotonus[symptoma.com]
Babies with bilirubin encephalopathy are lethargic, hypotonic or hypertonic, and have a high pitched cry, opisthotonus, seizures, and may die if bilirubin is not lowered.[neuropathology-web.org]
These include lethargy, decreased feeding, hypotonia or hypertonia, a high-pitched cry, spasmodic torticollis , opisthotonus , setting sun sign , fever, seizures, and even[en.wikipedia.org]
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Gaucher Disease Type 2
A progressively downhill course ensued, characterized by opisthotonus and respiratory difficulties, and the child died at age 7 months.[pediatrics.aappublications.org]
Type 2 is the infantile neuronopathic form, which is characterized by trismus, strabismus, ocular motor apraxia, opisthotonus and death by about two years.[collections.lib.utah.edu]
[…] patients have hepatosplenomegaly similar to type 1, but develop also neurological manifestations (stridor, strabismus and other oculomotor abnormalities, swallowing difficulty, opisthotonus[neuropathology-web.org]
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Cerebral Lipidosis
Two days after admission, opisthotonus accompanied with loss of con- sciousness was noted.[docslide.net]
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Neonatal Meningitis
Signs suggestive of meningeal irritation, including stiff neck, bulging fontanelle, convulsions, and opisthotonus, occur only in a minority of neonates with bacterial meningitis[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
[…] neck (generally not present in children under the age of one year or in patients with altered mental state), back rigidity, bulging fontanelle (in infants), photophobia, opisthotonus[patient.info]