Anorexia nervosa and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Saad, Laura ^a   Silva, Luiz ^a   Banzato, Claudio ^a   Dantas, Clarissa ^a   Garcia, Celso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THIAMINE; UREA;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMNESIA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; ATTENTION; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPREHENSION; CONFABULATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; GIN; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MALNUTRITION; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; ORIENTATION; PALLOR; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; VOMITING; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME;

EID: 77954682911     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-4-217     Document Type: Article

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