Open AccessAn Unusual Presentation of Osmotic Myelinolysis Syndrome in a Type 1 Diabetes Patient Involving the Spinal Cord
Author(s) -
M. Berrada,
Nour El Houda Sguiar El Hamadani,
Hicham El Otmani,
M.A. Rafai,
Bouchra El Moutawakil
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
scholars journal of medical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2347-9507
pISSN - 2347-6559
DOI - 10.36347/sjmcr.2022.v10i03.003
Subject(s) - medicine , pons , presentation (obstetrics) , spinal cord , central pontine myelinolysis , context (archaeology) , diabetic ketoacidosis , diabetes mellitus , surgery , hyponatremia , anatomy , endocrinology , psychiatry , paleontology , biology
Osmotic myelinolysis (OM) affecting the central nervous system typically occurs in the pons with or without involvement of other brain regions. Extrapontine myelinolysis can rarely occur in the spinal cord. Diabetic ketoacidosis is an uncommon and scarcely cause of OM. We report a case of a patient with type 1 diabetes who presented with an unusual presentation of OM syndrome affecting the pons and spinal cord and describe the clinical and radiographic findings in the context of other scarce reported cases.