Wernicke Encephalopathy Mimicking MELAS

CONCLUSIONS: the case suggests that thiamine deficiency presumably causes mitochondrial dysfunction with cerebrospinal fluid lactic acidosis and a stroke-like lesion mimicking MELAS syndrome. It should be further studied whether nutritional deficits, such as thiamine deficiency, could give rise to secondary stroke-like lesions.PMID:35630076 | PMC:PMC9144475 | DOI:10.3390/medicina58050660

Source: Medicina (Kaunas) - May 28, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Josef Finsterer Source Type: research