New-onset amnestic syndrome in AIDS patients with past history of alcohol abuse

Psychosomatics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 551-553

  Viswanathan, Ramaswamy ^a   Pilman, Mikhail ^a   Hasaj, Mario ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; CLONIDINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ETHAMBUTOL; FUROSEMIDE; METHADONE; NIFEDIPINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; THIAMINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

EID: 0031738445     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3182(98)71290-3     Document Type: Letter

References (6)

1. Soffer D, Zirkin H, Alkan M, et al: Wernicke's encephalopathy in AIDS. Clin Neuropathol 1989; 8:192-194
2. Montine TJ, Fuller GN: Weraicke's encephalopathy in a patient with AIDS. AIDS 1993; 7:744-745
3. Schwenk J, Gosztonyi G, Thierauf P, et al: Wernicke's encephalopathy in two patients with AIDS. J Neurol 1990; 237: 445-447
4. Harper C, Gold J, Rodrigues M, Perdices M: The prevalence of the Wernicke-Korsakoff in Sydney, Australia: a prospective necropsy study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1989; 52: 282-285
5. Butterworth RF, Gaudreau C, Vincelette J, et al: Thiamine deficiency and Wernicke's encephalopathy in AIDS. Metab Brain Dis 1991; 6:207-212
6. Zubaran C, Fernandez JG, Rodnight R: Wemicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Postgrad Med J 1997; 73:27-31