Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome in End-Stage Renal Disease: A Case Report

Ther Apher Dial. 2018 Dec;22(6):676-679. doi: 10.1111/1744-9987.12715. Epub 2018 Jul 15.

Authors

Ramona Nicotera¹, Giuseppe Leonardi¹, Alberto Castagna², Valeria Cernaro³, Giuseppe Coppolino¹; “Pugliese-Ciaccio” Hospital of Catanzaro collaborators

Collaborators

“Pugliese-Ciaccio” Hospital of Catanzaro collaborators:
Salvatore Mileti, Maria Teresa Panzino, Salvatore Chiarella, Giordano Placida, Antonio Panzino, Luciano De Paola, Maria Antonia Panzino, Cinzia Donato, Emilio Le Piane, Antonio Sergi, Luigi Santaguida

Affiliations

¹ Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, "Pugliese-Ciaccio" Hospital of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
² Center for Cognitive Disorders and Dementia, Distretto Socio-Sanitario Catanzaro Lido, ASP Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
³ Nephrology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.

PMID: 30009401
DOI: 10.1111/1744-9987.12715

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Brain / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Kidney Failure, Chronic / complications*
Korsakoff Syndrome / complications*
Korsakoff Syndrome / diagnosis*
Korsakoff Syndrome / drug therapy
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Renal Dialysis*
Thiamine / therapeutic use
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Vitamin B Complex / therapeutic use

Substances

Vitamin B Complex
Thiamine