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Radiol Case Rep
March 2025
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mohammed VI University Hospital Center, Faculty of Medecine and Pharmacy, Oujda, Morocco.
Wernicke's Encephalopathy (WE) is a rare but severe condition primarily caused by thiamine deficiency, often seen in pregnant women who experience severe vomiting, such as in hyperemesis gravidarum. This case report details a 38-year-old woman at 27 weeks of gestation who developed altered consciousness, cerebellar ataxia, and hyperlactatemia following persistent vomiting. Brain MRI demonstrated characteristic bilateral abnormalities consistent with WE.
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January 2025
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Introduction: Thiamine deficiency is common after bariatric surgery, but patients with obesity may be deficient in thiamine even before surgery. The purpose of this research was to determine the prevalence of thiamine deficiency in patients with obesity at a medical weight-management clinic and assess the relationship between recent weight loss and thiamine deficiency.
Methods: For this observational study, medical records were reviewed for patients (n = 146) at the nonsurgical obesity medicine and preoperative bariatric surgery clinic at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center between January 1, 2012, and January 31, 2019.
BMJ Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
We present a case of a male in his early 50s assessed in the emergency department with a seemingly clear alcohol history but with classic symptoms of Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE): disorientation, gait ataxia and vertical nystagmus. He also had significant bilateral hearing loss and profound anterograde amnesia. Neuroimaging revealed hallmark signs of WE, including symmetrical T2/fluid-attenuated inversion recovery hyperintensity in the medial thalami.
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January 2025
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Medical School, Sintra, Portugal.
Cognitive impairments are frequently observed in patients with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). Thiamine deficiency is often found in AUD patients and has been suggested as a possible cause of cognitive impairments. While thiamine deficiency is not consistently present in all AUD patients with cognitive deficits, thiamine is traditionally prescribed to patients with AUD to treat or prevent cognitive impairment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Small Anim Pract
January 2025
The Department of Small Animal DiagnosticImaging, Queen Mother Hospital for Animals, Hatfield, UK.
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