A 50 year-old woman with intractable vomiting developed confusion, poor memory and loss of vision. Wernicke's Encephalopathy: (Left) Flair axial MRI, (Middle) T1-weighted axial MRI, (Right) ...
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Powers Taylor LLP is investigating potential claims involving patients who have suffered brain damage because of Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome following common medical ...
While attending the 2018 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) meeting in Los Angeles, California, Medscape contributor Andrew N. Wilner, MD, interviewed Ariel Lyons-Warren, MD, PhD, about her case ...
March 12, 2007 — Bariatric surgery appears to increase the risk for atypical Wernicke encephalopathy, a serious neurologic condition caused by thiamine deficiency that is typically associated with ...
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Impact Biomedicines today presented a case review on fedratinib, a selective oral small molecule JAK2 kinase inhibitor that is being developed for the treatment of ...
THE more liberal use of prolonged starvation in the treatment of obesity has posed a number of questions regarding the metabolic requirements of body tissues under these conditions. The need for ...
What is Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome? Wernicke syndrome and Korsakoff syndrome are distinct but overlapping disorders that occur due to a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1), malnutrition, other ...
A diagnosis of Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE) is difficult. Transient hypotension has been reported as a rare complication of WE. 1, 2 Herein, we report a case of WE with prolonged hypotension. A ...