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Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. 1996

S Schaefer
Low Intensity Care Program, James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, Tampa, FL, USA.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000425 Alcohol Amnestic Disorder A mental disorder associated with chronic ethanol abuse (ALCOHOLISM) and nutritional deficiencies characterized by short term memory loss, confabulations, and disturbances of attention. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1139) Alcohol-Induced Amnestic Syndrome,Amnestic Psychosis, Alcohol-Induced,Alcohol Amnestic Syndrome,Alcohol-Induced Amnestic Psychosis,Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic Psychosis,Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic Syndrome,Alcohol-Induced Persisting Amnestic Disorder,Alcohol Amnestic Disorders,Alcohol Amnestic Syndromes,Alcohol Induced Amnestic Psychosis,Alcohol Induced Amnestic Syndrome,Alcohol Induced Dysmnesic Psychosis,Alcohol Induced Dysmnesic Syndrome,Alcohol Induced Persisting Amnestic Disorder,Alcohol-Induced Amnestic Psychoses,Alcohol-Induced Amnestic Syndromes,Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic Psychoses,Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic Syndromes,Amnestic Disorder, Alcohol,Amnestic Psychoses, Alcohol-Induced,Amnestic Psychosis, Alcohol Induced,Amnestic Syndrome, Alcohol-Induced,Amnestic Syndromes, Alcohol-Induced,Dysmnesic Psychoses, Alcohol-Induced,Dysmnesic Psychosis, Alcohol-Induced,Dysmnesic Syndrome, Alcohol-Induced,Dysmnesic Syndromes, Alcohol-Induced,Psychoses, Alcohol-Induced Amnestic,Psychoses, Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic,Psychosis, Alcohol-Induced Amnestic,Psychosis, Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic
D014899 Wernicke Encephalopathy An acute neurological disorder characterized by the triad of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, and disturbances of mental activity or consciousness. Eye movement abnormalities include nystagmus, external rectus palsies, and reduced conjugate gaze. THIAMINE DEFICIENCY and chronic ALCOHOLISM are associated conditions. Pathologic features include periventricular petechial hemorrhages and neuropil breakdown in the diencephalon and brainstem. Chronic thiamine deficiency may lead to KORSAKOFF SYNDROME. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp1139-42; Davis & Robertson, Textbook of Neuropathology, 2nd ed, pp452-3) Beriberi, Cerebral,Encephalopathy, Wernicke,Encephalopathy, Gayet-Wernicke,Encephalopathy, Wernicke's,Gayet-Wernicke Encephalopathy,Wernicke Disease,Wernicke Polioencephalitis, Superior Hemorrhagic,Wernicke Superior Hemorrhagic Polioencephalitis,Wernicke Syndrome,Wernicke's Disease,Wernicke's Encephalopathy,Wernicke's Polioencephalitis, Superior Hemorrhagic,Wernicke's Superior Hemorrhagic Polioencephalitis,Wernicke's Syndrome,Cerebral Beriberi,Encephalopathies, Wernicke,Encephalopathy, Gayet Wernicke,Encephalopathy, Wernickes,Gayet Wernicke Encephalopathy,Wernicke Encephalopathies

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