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Treatment Outcomes of Ocular Manifestations in Wernicke\u27s Encephalopathy: Case Report [PDF]
, 2023 The case of a 28- year-old woman with a past medical history of gastric sleeve who was reported to have blurry vision and presented to neuro-ophthalmology with double vision. On examination the patient had bilateral abducens palsy, alternating upbeat and
Whitney Stuard Sambhariya, PhD, Medical Student; Melanie Truong-Le, DO, OD
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Wernicke Encephalopathy and Lactic Acidosis in Thiamine Deficiency [PDF]
, 2020 Thiamine deficiency can cause encephalopathy (Wernicke) and lactic acidosis. Herein we report a 6-year-old girl on total parenteral nutrition (TPN) who developed lactic acidosis and neurological symptoms due to improper vitamin replacement, which ...
Korodlu, Tolga Fikri +2 more
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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 +3 more
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Nonalcoholic Wernicke’s encephalopathy [PDF]
CJEM, 2015 AbstractWernicke’s encephalopathy (WE) is a serious neurologic condition resulting from thiamine deficiency. The majority of cases involve alcoholism; however, nonalcohol-associated WE does occur and is under-recognized. We discuss a case of a 22-year-old man with a history of Crohn’s disease who presented to our emergency department with multiple ...
Amanda, Welsh +2 more
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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 ...
C. Rihab +7 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 +3 more
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Nystagmus and Abducens Nerve Palsy as an Early Presentation of Non-alcoholic Wernicke Encephalopathy. [PDF]
CureusWernicke encephalopathy (WE) is a rare but life-threatening syndrome that is commonly associated with chronic alcoholism. It has also been found to be associated with malnutrition, prolonged parenteral nutrition, hemodialysis, hyperemesis gravidarum ...
Darussalam SH +4 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 +4 more
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A case of wernicke's encephalopathy following fluorouracil-based chemotherapy [PDF]
, 2021 The pyrimidine antimetabolite 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is a chemotherapeutic agent used widely for various tumors. Common side effects of 5-FU are related to its effects on the bone marrow and gastrointestinal epithelium.
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