PubMed · 7056066
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R J Sweren, J W Burnett. 1982. Multiple Beau's lines.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7056066/
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A 48-year-old patient with massive obesity developed a dramatic increase of serum glucose and sodium concentration as first symptom of a so far unknown diabetes mellitus. A treatment with intravenous insulin infusion and administration of free water was initiated. Two weeks after this event he became comatose, developed dysphagia, a speech disorder and ocular bobbing; finally, he showed the picture of a complete tetraparesis. Computertomographic findings of the brain were unremarkable. Two weeks later physical findings of the patient showed a significant improvement. Dysphagia, speech disorder and even the tetraparesis disappeared. Computertomography of the brain now yielded a hypodense area within the pons. The symptoms can be understood as signs of central pontine myelinolysis, which may be due to hypo-osmolarity or fast equilibration of a hypo-osmolarity. The history of this patient is a rare example of a central pontine myelinolysis with spontaneous remission.
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