Question

Case Scenario: A 45-year-old woman presents with a drooping left eye, has fallen four times in the last month, and complains of weakness in her neck such that at times “it feels like my head is so heavy.” She has no prior health problems and has played tennis since she was a teen. She has no children and is married. She states her marriage is strong and they have an active church life. In the last six months, she has had multiple bouts of pneumonia that appear to resolve with antibiotics. Question: Explain what might be happening in this patient’s brain to cause these symptoms. Include in your answer specific facts, data, examples, and other information drawn from your textbook and at least one other supplemental source.

Answer 1

The patient's brain is infected by the pneumococcal microorganism. It has affected the layers of the meninges pathologically invading via the bloodstream crossing the blood brain barrier .This overtime die to repeated infection of pneumonia would have led to the spread of organism to cerebrum causing abscess.This infection has led to severe weakness in neck, ocular side effects like ptosis is a typical indicator of cerebral abscess secondary to pneumonia

The incident rate to get this is about 1.3 person/1,00,000 person and are often severe and fatal if not treated at the right time.The research confirms the dying bacteria will shed the cell walls which causes the infection in the mouse sets an example for the same that brain cells are affected.