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Thiamine deficiency : A case presentation and literature review [PDF]
This case examines the complicated hospital course of a patient ultimately diagnosed with thiamine deficiency. The presentation, diagnostic work up, and treatment of a 53-year-old male with a history of schizoaffective disorder, pituitary adenoma status ...
Easter, Alyssa, Katta, Natraj
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Cerebral microbleeds and cognitive impairment [PDF]
Background: With increasingly ageing populations comes an increased prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia. The pathophysiology behind dementia is still unknown, and there is no cure.
Shams, Sara
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Celiac disease in a teenager revealed with Wernicke Encephalopathy [PDF]
Bouayad Amira +5 more
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Recurrent anorexia because of gastrointestinal beriberi in a home care patient
An elderly man with a history of unexplained anorexia and lethargy was diagnosed with gastrointestinal beriberi during home care. Empiric oral thiamine supplementation led to dramatic improvement, underscoring the importance of early recognition and treatment of thiamine deficiency.
Ren Kawamura +3 more
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A case report: Non-alcoholic Wernicke encephalopathy associated with polyneuropathy
We report a rare case of non-alcoholic Wernicke encephalopathy (WE) with polyneuropathy. A 24-year-old woman who had recently served a 4-month prison sentence and underwent a short period of dieting manifested slow response, weakness, language disorder ...
Hudong Liang +5 more
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Acute Bilateral Ophthalmoplegias [PDF]
Bilateral ophthalmoplegia is that condition of weakness or paralysis involving one or more ocular muscles in each eye. Its sudden appearance due to an acute ocular myopathy is indeed unusual. Swash reported a single patient with acute necrotizing orbital
Selhorst, John B.
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Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis in Young Female: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge [PDF]
Alcoholic liver cirrhosis is a disease due to excessive alcohol consumption that manifest as fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, and chronic hepatitis with fibrosis or liver cirrhosis.
Mustika, S. (Syifa) +1 more
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Structure‐based discovery of thiamine uptake inhibitors
Background and Purpose Thiamine (vitamin B1) is an essential coenzyme and catalyses various reactions in central metabolic pathways. Since mammals have lost the ability to synthesise thiamine de novo, this micronutrient has to be imported via the high affinity solute carriers SLC19A2 and A3 across the plasma membrane.
Florian Gabriel +2 more
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A Historical Approach to Alcohol Abuse [PDF]
Alcohol consuming is so present in human history to the extent that it has become ‘a universal language’. Under this point of view, studying historical trends regarding alcohol consume, geographical profile of its abuse, political approaches at the level
Nikaj, Afërdita, Vyshka, Gentian
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Wernicke Encephalopathy After Sleeve Gastrectomy
We present a case of Wernicke encephalopathy after sleeve gastrectomy. The patient exhibited spontaneous upbeat nystagmus and gaze-evoked nystagmus during an ophthalmologic examination, as shown in the accompanying video.
Lu Li +3 more
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