Severe thiamine deficiency resulted in Wernicke's encephalopathy in a chronic dialysis patient

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 290-293

  Ueda, Kae ^a   Takada, Daisuke ^a   Mii, Akiko ^a   Tsuzuku, Yuko ^a   Saito, Sabine Kyoko ^a   Kaneko, Tomohiro ^a   Utsumi, Kouichi ^a   Iino, Yasuhiko ^a   Katayama, Yasuo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hemodialysis; Thiamine deficiency; Wernicke's encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; THIAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN AQUEDUCT; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PATIENT; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DETERIORATION; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRADIALYTIC PARENTERAL NUTRITION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PNEUMONIA; THALAMUS; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; THIAMINE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 33845802119     PISSN: 13421751     EISSN: 14377799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10157-006-0440-9     Document Type: Article

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