{"id":12749,"date":"2023-04-18T07:46:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T07:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=12749"},"modified":"2023-04-18T07:46:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T07:46:14","slug":"a-woman-with-focal-neurological-deficit-following-treatment-for-cholera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=12749","title":{"rendered":"A woman with focal neurological deficit following treatment for cholera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Johnstone J Kumwenda<sup>1<\/sup>, Arthur Daire<sup>1<\/sup>, Olive Mkwinda<sup>2<\/sup>, Noel Nazombe<sup>3<\/sup>, Atupele Mwale<sup>3<\/sup>, Glory Makhumba<sup>3<\/sup>, Samantha Musasa<sup>1<\/sup>, Fumbani Limani<sup>1<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1: Kamuzu University of Health Sciences; School of Medicine and Oral Health, Malawi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\"><li>Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Malawi<\/li><li>Final year students; Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Oral Health, Malawi<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Corresponding Author<\/strong>: Johnstone J Kumwenda; <strong>E-mail<\/strong>: jonnykumwenda@hotmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>A 41-year old woman was treated for cholera at one of the health centers in Blantyre. Two days after discharge from the treatment unit, she developed weakness of all 4 limbs and difficulties with speech. She was referred to the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital. A CT scan of the brain showed hypodense lesions in the pons. A diagnosis of central pontine myelinolysis was made. She recovered slowly and was discharged from hospital 17 days after admission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Johnstone-J-Kumwenda.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnstone J Kumwenda1, Arthur Daire1, Olive Mkwinda2, Noel Nazombe3, Atupele Mwale3, Glory Makhumba3, Samantha Musasa1, Fumbani Limani1 1: Kamuzu University of Health Sciences; School of Medicine and Oral Health, Malawi Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Malawi Final year students; Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Oral Health, Malawi Corresponding Author: Johnstone J Kumwenda; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12750,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12749\/revisions\/12750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}