Wernicke's encephalopathy

Introduction: Wernicke's encephalopathy

Description of Wernicke's encephalopathy

Wernicke's encephalopathy (medical condition): Brain condition with various effects...more »

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Wernicke's encephalopathy: inflammatory degenerative disease of the brain caused by thiamine deficiency that is usually associated with alcoholism.
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Wernicke's encephalopathy: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Wernicke's encephalopathy:

• Wernicke
• Wernicke disease
• Wernicke syndrome
• Encephalopathy (185 causes)
• Inflammatory
• Inflammatory symptoms (1736 causes)
• Inflammatory disease
• Degenerative
• Degenerative disease
• Brain

Wernicke's encephalopathy: Rare Disease

Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Wernicke's encephalopathy is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Wernicke's encephalopathy, or a subtype of Wernicke's encephalopathy, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Wernicke's encephalopathy as a Disease

Wernicke's encephalopathy (medical condition): See Wernicke's encephalopathy (disease information).
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  »Symptoms of Wernicke's encephalopathy
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Wernicke's encephalopathy: Related Diseases

Wernicke's encephalopathy: Wernicke's encephalopathy is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Brain conditions
• Nervous system conditions
• Head conditions
• Movement conditions
• Eye and vision conditions

More information on medical condition: Wernicke's encephalopathy:

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• Treatments for Wernicke's encephalopathy

Wernicke's encephalopathy: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Wernicke's encephalopathy:

• nystagmus
• gaze palsies
• ophthalmoplegia
• thiamine deficiency
• Korsakoff's pyschosis

Terms associated with Wernicke's encephalopathy:

Terms Similar to Wernicke's encephalopathy:

• Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
• Alcohol induced encephalopathy
• Transketolase defect

Source - NIH

• Wernicke's encephalopathy

Source - WordNet 2.1

Broader terms for Wernicke's encephalopathy

• brain disorder
• encephalopathy
• brain disease

Source - WordNet 2.1

Hierarchical classifications of Wernicke's encephalopathy

The following list attempts to classify Wernicke's encephalopathy into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• brain disease,brain disorder,encephalopathy
• nervous disorder,neurological disease,neurological disorder
• disorder,upset
• condition,status
• state

Source: WordNet 2.1

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