A Case of Wernicke's Encephalopathy in a Patient with Multiple System Atrophy.
- Author:
Dong Ick SHIN
1
;
Dae Hee SEO
;
Euy Byung CHAE
Author Information
1. Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Kwandong University, Korea. sdi007@hanmail.net
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Wernicke's encephalopathy;
Multiple system atrophy
- MeSH:
Adult;
Atrophy;
Brain;
Cerebellar Ataxia;
Dysarthria;
Gait;
Humans;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging;
Mamillary Bodies;
Multiple System Atrophy*;
Periaqueductal Gray;
Wernicke Encephalopathy*
- From:Journal of the Korean Neurological Association
2003;21(4):425-428
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A 41-year-old man was admitted due to altered mentality and confusion. He had showed progressive cerebellar ataxia, dysarthria, gait disturbance from his age of 33 years old. Brain MRI revealed high signal lesions in periaqueductal gray matter, mammillary bodies, median thalami and postcentral gyri bilaterally on T2-weighted images. Severe cerebellar atrophy was noted, too. We report a case of Wernicke's encephalopathy in a patient with probable multiple system atrophy. As far as we know, there have been no published report on this kind of case.
