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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Mimicking Wernicke Encephalopathy [PDF]

Journal of Neurocritical Care, 2015
Background: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is the prototype of a family of rare and fatal human degenerative conditions characterized by rapidly progressive dementia, myoclonus and akinetic mutism.
Min Suck Kim, Sung Je Kim, Youngrok Do
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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 ...
R K Sabharwal, Praveen Kumar, Seema Sud, Krishna Janakbhai Kasawala   +3 more
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A unique MRI-pattern in alcohol-associated Wernicke encephalopathy

Acta Neurologica Belgica, 2020
Wernicke encephalopathy (WE) due to vitamin-B1 (i.e. thiamine) deficiency is an emergency that might easily be overlooked. The most common underlying cause is vitaminB1 deficiency in the setting of alcohol abuse/addiction.
O. Eren, F. Schöberl, M. Campana, M. Habs, J. Conrad   +4 more
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Review of thiamine deficiency disorders: Wernicke encephalopathy and Korsakoff psychosis

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, 2018
Wernicke encephalopathy (WE) and Korsakoff psychosis (KP), together termed Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome (WKS), are distinct yet overlapping neuropsychiatric disorders associated with thiamine deficiency.
A. Chandrakumar, Aseem Bhardwaj, G. '. 't Jong   +2 more
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Wernicke Encephalopathy as a Complication of Hyperemesis Gravidarum: Case Report

Gynecologie et obstetrique, 2020
Wernicke encephalopathy (WE) is an acute neurological disorder resulting from vitamin B1 deficiency, which is common in chronic alcoholism. We report a rare case of WE due to hyperemesis gravidarum in a 25-year-old pregnant patient at 13 weeks and 5 days
Ê. Damaso, Estella Thaisa Sontag Dos Reis, Felipe Alves de Jesus, A. Marcolin, R. Cavalli, E. Moisés   +5 more
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Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome and Wernicke encephalopathy in patient with acute graft-versus-host disease

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
Francesca Di Giuliano, MD, Eliseo Picchi, MD, Jacopo Scaggiante, MD, Paolo Ferrante, MD, Teresa Misciasci, MD, Valerio Da Ros, MD, PhD, Chiara Adriana Pistolese, MD, Roberto Floris, MD, PhD, Francesco Garaci, MD, PhD   +8 more
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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
Samar A. Abbas, Halim Abboud, Moussa A. Chalah, Chadi Sabbagh, Samar S. Ayache   +4 more
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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
A. E. Neimark, S. E. Lapshina, M. A. Molotkova   +2 more
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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.
Alisa Olmsted, Andrea DeSimone, Jahaira Lopez-Pastrana, Madeleine Becker   +3 more
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Deficiency of thiamine and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome – review of pathophysiology, clinical presentation , diagnostics and treatment

Journal of Education, Health and Sport
Introduction and aim of the study: Thiamine is a water-soluble vitamine, which bioactive form is necessary for energy metabolism in all cells. Deficiency of thiamine may be caused by malnutrition, alcoholism and certain diseases and it leads to an acute ...
Roksana Zdunek, Karolina Strus, Magdalena Madera, Natalia Dąbrowska, Sylwia Mazur, Agata Mazur, Aleksy Bizan, Emilia Nagórska, Krzysztof Marcinkowski, Aleksandra Kublińska   +9 more
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