A 63-year-old man was admitted to our internal medicine service with a 3-week history of gait imbalance. His medical history included alcohol use disorder, immunoglobulin A vasculitis, and ...

A systematic review synthesized findings from six case reports that linked semaglutide use for obesity to Wernicke encephalopathy in mostly middle-aged patients with multiple comorbidities. In each ...

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) ...

A 28-year-old woman who had recently had hyperemesis gravidarum presented with confusion and falls. She was found to have nystagmus (shown in videos) and MRI abnormalities consistent with Wernicke’ ...

Background A 17-year-old pregnant woman presented to hospital at 19 weeks' gestation with an 8-week history of hyperemesis gravidarum, 16.8 kg of weight loss, and new-onset weakness, dizziness and ...

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 ...

Eine 17-jährige Erstgebärende in der 13. Schwangerschaftswoche wurde mit einer seit vier Tagen bestehenden akuten schlaffen Lähmung und Verwirrtheit stationär aufgenommen. Die Patientin lebte ...

A 52 year-old man with a history of alcohol abuse was brought in by his family for confusion. On examination, he had bilateral sixth nerve palsies and difficulty with upgaze. Wernicke's encephalopathy ...