Wernicke’s encephalopathy: clinical features
Evidence-based neurology checklist on wernicke’s encephalopathy: clinical features: Cognitive features Confusion Confabulation Retrograde and anterograde amnesia Recent memory is worse affected (Ribot’s law) Ophthalmological features Cranial nerve dysfunctions Other presentations
Cognitive features
- Confusion
- Confabulation
- Retrograde and anterograde amnesia
- Recent memory is worse affected (Ribot’s law)
Ophthalmological features
Cranial nerve dysfunctions
Other presentations
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