WERNICKES ENCEPHALOPATHY AND CENTRAL PONT INE MYELINOLYSIS INDUCED BYHYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM

Authors
OLINDO S SMADJA D CABRE P MEHDAOUI H HEINZLEF O
Citation
S. Olindo et al., WERNICKES ENCEPHALOPATHY AND CENTRAL PONT INE MYELINOLYSIS INDUCED BYHYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM, Revue neurologique, 153(6-7), 1997, pp. 427-429
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Revue neurologique → ACNP
ISSN journal
00353787
Volume
153
Issue
6-7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
427 - 429
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-3787(1997)153:6-7<427:WEACPI>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
A 24-year-old woman developed hyperemesis gravidarum, complicated by W ernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis. The first w as due to a deficiency of thiamine, and was hastened by intravenous de xtrose without thiamine supplements. However, no changes in serum sodi um or phosphorus values were observed. In this case, the pathophysiolo gy of central pontine myelinolysis remained obscure.