Central Pontine Myelinolysis in Pregnancy: A Case of Rare Occurrence
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Abstract
Central pontine myelinolysis is a non-inflammatory neurologic deficit and can have a wide array of clinical features, predisposing risk factors as well as different patterns of onset along with a big difference in prognosis ranging from asymptomatic cases to encephalopathy and also mortality. Apart from the common risk factors like hyponatremia and sudden correction of electrolyte imbalances, sometimes, the least prevalent risk factors such as pregnancy seem to link with the central pontine myelinolysis. Mostly its onset is sudden after the inciting factors. However, it is also likely to have cases of central pontine myelinolysis with gradual onset of clinical features. The purpose of the case report is to highlight the link between pregnancy and central pontine myelinolysis. The slow onset of clinical features in pregnancy-linked central pontine myelinolysis can also be considered. The patient in the case report presented with gradual onset clinical features of osmotic demyelination syndrome during the last months of pregnancy and immediately postpartum. All the possible predisposing risk factors for central pontine myelinolysis were ruled out through history, physical examination, and relevant investigations. The case study of the patient hypothesized that: (1) pregnancy should be considered as a risk factor for central pontine myelinolysis in pregnant and postpartum patients presenting with clinical features of the disease, (2) clinical features of central pontine myelinolysis in pregnancy can have a more gradual onset of symptoms compared to other causes of central pontine myelinolysis. Although, this case report signifies a relationship between pregnancy and osmotic demyelination syndrome. However, further studies should be done to develop a causal relationship and preventive measures for the condition.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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