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An atypical presentation of Wernicke-Korsakoff encephalopathy mimicking a left hemispheric stroke: case report

2024-07-02

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background: </bold>Wernicke-Korsakoff encephalopathy (WKE) is a metabolic disease caused by vitamin B1 deficiency that predominantly affects alcoholic patients. Its clinical picture is characterized mainly by altered mental status with memory deficits, ophthalmoparesis, and ataxia, although other clinical manifestations may also be present.The current case presents certain clinica...

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Literature Corpus work: f6f78f56-4d04-50da-9ec7-b3778242b8ee
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4638507/v1

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