Wernicke's encephalopathy due to food refusal in a patient with severe depressive disorder

Sara P Dias; Mariana C Diogo; Carlos Capela; Rita Marques; Marco Gonçalves

doi:10.1016/j.jns.2017.01.052

Wernicke's encephalopathy due to food refusal in a patient with severe depressive disorder

J Neurol Sci. 2017 Apr 15:375:92-93. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.01.052. Epub 2017 Jan 17.

Authors

Sara P Dias¹, Mariana C Diogo², Carlos Capela³, Rita Marques², Marco Gonçalves⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, Alameda Santo António dos Capuchos, 1169-050 Lisbon, Portugal. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Neuroradiology, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Rua José António Serrano, 1150-199 Lisbon, Portugal.
³ Department of Neurology, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, Alameda Santo António dos Capuchos, 1169-050 Lisbon, Portugal.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Clínica 5, Av. do Brasil, 1749-002 Lisbon, Portugal.

PMID: 28320197
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.01.052

No abstract available

Keywords: Internuclear ophthalmoplegia; Korsakoff syndrome; Magnetic resonance imaging; Psychiatric disease; Thiamine deficiency; Wernicke's encephalopathy.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Depressive Disorder
Humans
Korsakoff Syndrome*
Thiamine
Wernicke Encephalopathy*

Substances

Thiamine