Acute Wernicke's Encephalopathy following Bariatric Surgery: Clinical Course and MRI Correlation

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 129-132

  Loh, Yince ^a   Watson, William D ^a   Verma, Ajay ^b   Chang, Suyoung T ^a   Stocker, Derek J ^a   Labutta, Robert J ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Hyperemesis; Malnutrition; Morbid obesity; Thiamine; Vitamin; Wernicke's encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

THIAMINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AMNESIA; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; APATHY; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFABULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISORIENTATION; FLAPPING TREMOR; FOLLOW UP; GAIT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORBID OBESITY; MYOCLONUS; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STOMACH BYPASS; STROKE; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; SUPPLEMENTATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; BODY MASS INDEX; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION DISORDERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THIAMINE; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 1442318952     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/096089204772787437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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