Wernicke encephalopathy complicating catatonic schizophrenia
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Wernicke’s encephalopathy is a potentially fatal neurological emergency caused by thiamine deficiency. Although it is often associated with chronic alcoholism, it can also occur in all situations that lead to a thiamine deficiency such as ...
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Wernicke's encephalopathy in a child with abdominal tuberculosis
Current Medicine Research and Practice, 2021 Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE) is an acute neurological disorder, potentially fatal if untreated, caused by thiamine deficiency. A 15-year-old female patient with choledocholithiasis, cholecystitis and abdominal tuberculosis on antitubercular therapy ...
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Non-alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome in psychiatric patients with a history of undiagnosed Wernicke's encephalopathy [PDF]
, 2016 Wernicke's encephalopathy is often undiagnosed, particularly in non-alcoholics. There are very few reports of non-alcoholic patients diagnosed with Korsakoff syndrome in the absence of a prior diagnosis of Wernicke's encephalopathy and no studies of ...
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Radiology Case Reports, 2019 Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is an immune triggered process leading to severe immune dysregulation and organ dysfunction until death and it is one of the worst medical complications after a transplant. Patients with GVHD may have several neurological
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Wernicke encephalopathy after sleeve gastrectomy
Ожирение и метаболизм, 2023 The article describes the case of a patient with Wernicke encephalopathy, which developed 3 months after the sleeve gastrectomy. An MRI of the brain was performed to verify the diagnosis, which revealed a symmetrical non-uniform increase in the MR signal
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Isolated Mammillary Bodies Damage—An Atypical Presentation of Wernicke Syndrome
Behavioral Sciences, 2018 We report atypical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) lesions in a case of Wernicke encephalopathy. The patient presented with isolated anterograde amnesia following a partial colectomy complicated by peritonitis. Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery and T2
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Wernicke Encephalopathy in COVID-19 Patients: Report of Three Cases
Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 Encephalopathy has been frequently reported in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) related to COVID-19, and its etiology remains undetermined.
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The Long-Term Cost to the UK NHS and Social Services of Different Durations of IV Thiamine (Vitamin B1) for Chronic Alcohol Misusers with Symptoms of Wernicke's Encephalopathy Presenting at the Emergency Department. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE) is an acute neuropsychiatric condition caused by depleted intracellular thiamine, most commonly arising in chronic alcohol misusers, who may present to emergency departments (EDs) for a variety of reasons ...
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Fetal demise and Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome in a patient with hyperemesis gravidarum: a case report
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2023 Background Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome is a neuropsychiatric disorder caused by thiamine deficiency composed of two related disorders accounting for an acute presentation and chronic progression.
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Into the future with little past: exploring mental time travel in a patient with damage to the mammillary bodies/fornix [PDF]
, 2016 Objective: Remembering the past and imaging the future are both manifestations of ‘mental time travel’. These processes have been found to be impaired in patients with bilateral hippocampal lesions.
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