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SUBMITTER: Kattah JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6082353 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neurology. Clinical practice 20131201 6
Non-encephalopathic presentations of CNS thiamine deficiency may be difficult to diagnose. We describe neuro-otologic findings of Wernicke syndrome in 5 patients with vestibular manifestations. Diagnosis was confirmed by low serum levels, response to replacement, and brain MRI to exclude other causes. All had bilaterally abnormal horizontal head impulse vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) responses and pathologic gaze-evoked nystagmus, without encephalopathy. After thiamine replacement, 4 had total re ...[more]