PedAM

Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines

Disease	beriberi
Symptom	C0043121\|wernicke\'s encephalopathy
Sentences	8
PubMedID- 24612868	Introduction: bariatric restrictive interventions, as sleeve gastrectomy or gastric banding can cause metabolic complications, especially when vomiting is present, such as thiamine deficiency that can lead to wernicke's encephalopathy.
PubMedID- 22190950	One of the most important aspects of the history is the duration of vomiting in order to assess the potential risk for wernicke's encephalopathy due to thiamine deficiency.
PubMedID- 24078061	thiamine deficiency (td) leads to wernicke's encephalopathy (we), in which focal histological lesions occur in periventricular areas of the brain.
PubMedID- 23347747	thiamine deficiency can lead to wernicke's encephalopathy (we), an acute neurological disorder characterized by the clinical triad of oculomotor abnormalities, cerebellar dysfunction, and altered mental state and by the traditionally defined pathology of neuronal loss and hemorrhagic lesions in the paraventricular and periaqueductal grey matter.
PubMedID- 22869492	When wernicke's encephalopathy is due to thiamine deficiency alone, korsakoff's psychosis rarely develops following thiamine replacement.
PubMedID- 22506178	However, gastric surgery can cause surgical or metabolic complications, such as thiamine deficiency, which can lead to wernicke's encephalopathy.
PubMedID- 21130821	Emerging evidence suggests that thiamine deficiency (td), the cause of wernicke's encephalopathy, produces alterations in brain function and structural damage that closely model a number of maladies in which neurodegeneration is a characteristic feature, including alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, along with alcoholic brain disease, stroke, and traumatic brain injury.
PubMedID- 24582417	We report a case of rapid wernicke's encephalopathy due to a thiamine deficiency in a young female patient following sleeve gastrectomy (sg).

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