Wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis in hyperemesis gravidarum

A pregnant woman, who had been suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, presented with alteration of consciousness, ocular nystagmus and ataxia. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the brain showed typical findings of Wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis. The clinical features res...

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Autores principales: Sutamnartpong, Panee, Muengtaweepongsa, Sombat, Kulkantrakorn, Kongkiat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3579041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23546346
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.105608
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author Sutamnartpong, Panee
Muengtaweepongsa, Sombat
Kulkantrakorn, Kongkiat
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description A pregnant woman, who had been suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, presented with alteration of consciousness, ocular nystagmus and ataxia. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the brain showed typical findings of Wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis. The clinical features responded dramatically to thiamine supplementation.
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spelling pubmed-35790412013-02-28 Wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis in hyperemesis gravidarum Sutamnartpong, Panee Muengtaweepongsa, Sombat Kulkantrakorn, Kongkiat J Neurosci Rural Pract Case Report A pregnant woman, who had been suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, presented with alteration of consciousness, ocular nystagmus and ataxia. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the brain showed typical findings of Wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis. The clinical features responded dramatically to thiamine supplementation. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3579041/ /pubmed/23546346 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.105608 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis in hyperemesis gravidarum
title Wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis in hyperemesis gravidarum
title_full Wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis in hyperemesis gravidarum
title_fullStr Wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis in hyperemesis gravidarum
title_full_unstemmed Wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis in hyperemesis gravidarum
title_short Wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis in hyperemesis gravidarum
title_sort wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis in hyperemesis gravidarum
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3579041/
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