21 year old woman with paraplegia
21 year old woman, working as a nurse in an outside hospital, residing at Nalgonda presented to casualty on 26/8/2021 with the chief complaints of
Fever since 4 months
Generalized weakness since 4 months
Body pains along with multiple joint pains since 4 months
Cough since 1 month
Vomiting 1 day back
Unable to walk since 1 day
Unable to pass urine and stool since 1 day
She was born out of a non consanguinous marriage. She cried immediately after birth.
At birth - she was in the hospital for 2 - 3 days for jaundice.
Her father works as a shop keeper and her mother works at a chaat bandi. She has 2 elder sisters, both of her sisters work as the nursing staff.
At 13 years of age, she had a history of fall following which she lost all her teeth.
She was apparently alright until 1 year back when she noticed swelling in her neck after she went for a checkup to a local hospital where she got diagnosed to be hypothyroid. She was started on Tab thyronorm 100mcg once daily.
Few months later she developed generalized weakness for which she paid a visit to a local hospital where in she was diagnosed with anemia for which she used vitamins supplementation for 2 days and stopped.
4 months back she developed low grade fever for 1 week which was nocturnal in variation, not followed by night sweats and was relieved by medications. Since then she has been experiencing low grade fever intermittently. She started experiencing generalized weakness and loss of appetite.
She also tells us that she started experiencing extreme body pains to an extent that she stopped going to work. She even developed lower back pain followed by pain in her bilateral knee joints, wrists and elbow joints.
Since 1 month she has been having cough with scanty, non blood tinged mucoid expectoration.
She paid a visit to a local hospital and received symptomatic treatment for a week.
1 day back she had 2 episodes of non projectile, non bilious,
non blood tinged Vomiting.
On 26th of this month, she suddenly fell off from her bed at 7am in the morning when she tried to get up from her bed. Her mother and father had to lift her up and put her on the bed. She was unable to raise her bilateral lower limbs. Though she was able to move her toes with difficulty. Few hours later she started experiencing tingling sensation in her bilateral lower limbs. They assumed it was due to her generalized weakness and loss of appetite so she wasn't taken to any hospital. She even didn't pass urine and stool since morning. By evening after noticing that their daughter couldn't get up from her bed her parents got alarmed and got to our hospital.
On further questioning:
She gave no complains of difficulty in combing her hair, no difficulty in mixing of food.
She had difficulty in getting up or turning in the bed
She gave no complaints of loss of smell, vision, diploma or eye movements, no difficulty in chewing, loss of sensation over the face, loss of taste, hearing and swallowing.
She says that she lost around 10kgs over the past 6 months
On presentation to us:
Thin built woman
She had pallor
Her vitals were stable
GCS - 15/15
She was conscious, coherent and cooperative with an
MMSE of 30/30
Pupils bilaterally reacting to light
Bulk - Right Left
Mid arm 18cm 18cm
Forearm 13cm 13cm
Mid thigh 26cm 26cm
Leg 18.5cm 18.5cm
Tone
UL Reduced bilaterally
LL Reduced bilaterally
Power
UL 4+/5 4+/5
LL 2/5 2/5
Reflexes
B 3+ 3+
T 2+ 2+
S 3+ 3+
K - -
A - -
P Extensor bilaterally
Abdominal reflex - Absent
Sensory system:
Priopioception lost upto the level of ankles
Vibration: Reduced in the lower limbs, more on the right side
Right Left
Great toe 3 secs 4 secs
Ankle 3 secs 8secs
Knee 6 secs 8secs
Wrist 10 secs 11 secs
Elbow 11 secs 12 secs
Fine touch - + +
Crude touch:
On right side she complained of reduced touch on her right thigh
Spinal Tenderness- present throughout all the levels of spine
Cranial nerves - normal
Cerebellar signs - absent
Lungs - Reduced breath sounds bilaterally in all the lung fields
Cvs - S1,S2 +
Per Abdomen-
Bowel sounds +
USG abdomen from outside hospital done 1 week back:
Investigations done in our hospital:
? Pulmonary kochs
? Military TB
Investigations:
Hemogram:
RBC: 4.09
WBC: 12300
Hb- 8.4
PLT- 4.8 lakh
Aptt- 32 sec
PT - 16 sec
INR. - 1.11
BT - 2 min
CT - 4 min
ESR - 90 mm in 1st hr
CUE:
Albumin- nil
Sugars- nil
Pus cells - 2 to 3
Epithelial cells - 2 to 3
Blood urea- 22 mg/dl
Serum creatinine - 0.6 mg/dl
TB- 0.70 mg/dl
DB. - 0.19 mg/dl
Na+ - 132 meq/lit
K+ - 3.4 meq/lit
Cl- : 94 meq/lit
ALP: 236 meq/lit
SGOT: 13 IU/LIT
SGPT: 10 IU/LIT
Serum protein: 6.5 gm/dl
Serum magnesium: 2.2 mg/dl
Serum calcium: 9.6 mg/dl
Serum albumin: 2.4 gm/dl
28/7/21
Her sister and mother complained of her having left eyelid ptosis and she was complaining of diplopia in the morning
Her weakness aggravated since yesterday
She also complains of neck stiffness
Neck stiffness+
Kernigs sign - couldn't be elicited as she is complaining of severe bilateral knee joint pains
Power is now 0/5 in both the lower limbs
Reflexes - Bilateral finger flexion + on Biceps and supinator examination
Lower limb reflexes absent
Abdominal reflex absent
Sensory system:
Vibration Reduced upto the level of hip joint ( lesser on the right side)
Proprioception absent upto the level of ankles
Couldn't appreciate fine and crude touch below the level of umbilicus
Left eye ptosis +
Extraocular muscles - normal
Pupils bilaterally reacting to light
All the other cranial nerves normal
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