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Wernicke's encephalopathy: Is visual loss a red herring?

Sujit KumarAbdul Rawoof BolarRohit ShettySharath Kumar Goddu GovindappaManithody Narayan Bhat PramodJagadish Basavaraj AgadiLakshminarayanapuram Gopal VishwanathanChaitra Parameshwara Adiga
Published in: Clinical case reports (2022)
Predominantly visual loss, is very rare in Wernicke's encephalopathy. A 22 year old lady, in her 28th week of gestation, presented with a confused mental state, bilateral papilloedema with retinal hemorrhages, ophthalmoparesis, and cerebellar signs. Her MRI brain was suggestive of Wernicke's encephalopathy and she recovered with intravenous thiamine.
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