Pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis associated with rapid correction of hyponatremia - a review

• Main Authors: Hanna Dominik (Author), Wojciech Pawęska (Author), Jan Radwański (Author), Zuzanna Czudy (Author), Marika Polatowska (Author), Anna Gadomska (Author), Justyna Kurek (Author), Rafał Gorzyński (Author), Michał Garstka (Author), Justyna Molczyk-Sieńczak (Author)
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• Published: Kazimierz Wielki University, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Pontine myelinolysis was first described in 1959 by Adams, Victor and Mancall and reported in alcoholic patients.[1]  It is characterized, above all, by acute non-inflammatory symmetrical lesion of myelin sheath and apoptosis of oligodendrocytes affecting the central part of the basis pontis.[5] Dem...