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Gaze‐evoked nystagmus in Wernicke encephalopathy

Wernicke encephalopathy is caused by vitamin B1 deficiency. It presents as a triad consisting of altered mental status, oculomotor dysfunction, and gait ataxia. Early vitamin B1 administration alleviates symptoms. We present a video of gaze‐evoked nystagmus in an elderly patient with Wernicke enceph...

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Autores principales: Shirota, Shogo, Nishioka, Hiroaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8931301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35340634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5615
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description Wernicke encephalopathy is caused by vitamin B1 deficiency. It presents as a triad consisting of altered mental status, oculomotor dysfunction, and gait ataxia. Early vitamin B1 administration alleviates symptoms. We present a video of gaze‐evoked nystagmus in an elderly patient with Wernicke encephalopathy.
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spelling pubmed-89313012022-03-24 Gaze‐evoked nystagmus in Wernicke encephalopathy Shirota, Shogo Nishioka, Hiroaki Clin Case Rep Clinical Videos Wernicke encephalopathy is caused by vitamin B1 deficiency. It presents as a triad consisting of altered mental status, oculomotor dysfunction, and gait ataxia. Early vitamin B1 administration alleviates symptoms. We present a video of gaze‐evoked nystagmus in an elderly patient with Wernicke encephalopathy. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8931301/ /pubmed/35340634 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5615 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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title Gaze‐evoked nystagmus in Wernicke encephalopathy
title_full Gaze‐evoked nystagmus in Wernicke encephalopathy
title_fullStr Gaze‐evoked nystagmus in Wernicke encephalopathy
title_full_unstemmed Gaze‐evoked nystagmus in Wernicke encephalopathy
title_short Gaze‐evoked nystagmus in Wernicke encephalopathy
title_sort gaze‐evoked nystagmus in wernicke encephalopathy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8931301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35340634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5615
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