A Case of Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Due to Idiopathic Gastroparesis: A Rare Cause of Encephalopathy in a Young Woman

Wernicke’s encephalopathy (WE) is a rare, life-threatening neurological disease due to thiamine deficiency. It is most commonly associated with chronic alcoholism but is also associated with disorders of malabsorption and malnutrition. We present a case of a young female with idiopathic gastroparesi...

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Autores principales: Koury, Matthew, Tantum, Julianna, Savard, Corey, Donohue, Joshua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9249061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35784977
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25653
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author Koury, Matthew
Tantum, Julianna
Savard, Corey
Donohue, Joshua
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description Wernicke’s encephalopathy (WE) is a rare, life-threatening neurological disease due to thiamine deficiency. It is most commonly associated with chronic alcoholism but is also associated with disorders of malabsorption and malnutrition. We present a case of a young female with idiopathic gastroparesis who developed Wernicke’s encephalopathy due to poor oral intake and malnutrition as a result of gastroparesis. This case exemplifies that Wernicke’s encephalopathy should be on the differential in patients who present with encephalopathy with a history of gastroparesis.
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spelling pubmed-92490612022-07-02 A Case of Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Due to Idiopathic Gastroparesis: A Rare Cause of Encephalopathy in a Young Woman Koury, Matthew Tantum, Julianna Savard, Corey Donohue, Joshua Cureus Internal Medicine Wernicke’s encephalopathy (WE) is a rare, life-threatening neurological disease due to thiamine deficiency. It is most commonly associated with chronic alcoholism but is also associated with disorders of malabsorption and malnutrition. We present a case of a young female with idiopathic gastroparesis who developed Wernicke’s encephalopathy due to poor oral intake and malnutrition as a result of gastroparesis. This case exemplifies that Wernicke’s encephalopathy should be on the differential in patients who present with encephalopathy with a history of gastroparesis. Cureus 2022-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9249061/ /pubmed/35784977 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25653 Text en Copyright © 2022, Koury et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Koury, Matthew
Tantum, Julianna
Savard, Corey
Donohue, Joshua
A Case of Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Due to Idiopathic Gastroparesis: A Rare Cause of Encephalopathy in a Young Woman
title A Case of Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Due to Idiopathic Gastroparesis: A Rare Cause of Encephalopathy in a Young Woman
title_full A Case of Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Due to Idiopathic Gastroparesis: A Rare Cause of Encephalopathy in a Young Woman
title_fullStr A Case of Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Due to Idiopathic Gastroparesis: A Rare Cause of Encephalopathy in a Young Woman
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Due to Idiopathic Gastroparesis: A Rare Cause of Encephalopathy in a Young Woman
title_short A Case of Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Due to Idiopathic Gastroparesis: A Rare Cause of Encephalopathy in a Young Woman
title_sort case of wernicke’s encephalopathy due to idiopathic gastroparesis: a rare cause of encephalopathy in a young woman
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9249061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35784977
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25653
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