Mumbai docs find woman suffering from repeated headache had rare brain infection
A severe headache quickly spiralled into a life-threatening neurological emergency for a 31-year-old woman from Gujarat but Mumbai doctors have come to her rescue, and helped her walk again after timely surgery.
After developing weakness on the right side of her body and slurred speech, she was admitted to a hospital where a brain scan showed swelling. She was started on conservative treatment, but her condition took an alarming turn when she began experiencing recurrent seizures. As her neurological symptoms worsened despite treatment, she was referred to Wockhardt Hospitals in Mumbai Central, where Dr Prashant Makhija, consultant neurologist, took over her care.
By the time she arrived at the city-based hospital, the priority was to understand why a young woman with no obvious explana...
