Alcoholic Wernicke Encephalopathy Presenting with Ataxic Gait and Diplopia ; Korean J Clin Geri 2017 Jun;18(1):48-51 ; Published online June 30, 2017; https://doi.org/10.15656/kjcg.2017.18.1.48 ; Copyright © 2017 The Korean Academy of Clinical Geriatrics.
with alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome it is known as Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome. [3][4] Classically, Wernicke encephalopathy... 2 Pathological anatomy 4 Diagnosis 5 Prevention 6 Treatment 7...
[4][6] Hepatic encephalopathy is possibly reversible with treatment. [1] This typically... alcoholic hepatitis , hepatitis A ) Unknown In 20–30% of cases, no clear cause for an attack can...
Excessive drinking over a period of years may lead to a condition commonly known as alcoholic dementia, or alcohol-related dementia (ARD). In the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and...
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The report deals with a study of 16 patients with alcoholic paraphrenia and 30 patients where the paraphrenic syndrome was a stage in Gaiie-Wernicke's encephalopathy, alcoholic paranoid state and a...
Hepatic encephalopathy is a chronically debilitating complication of hepatic cirrhosis. The efficacy of rifaximin, a minimally absorbed antibiotic, is well documented in the treatment of acute hepa...