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Cytomegalovirus ventriculoencephalitis presenting as a Wernicke's encephalopathy-like syndrome
J Torgovnick1, E L Arsura, D Lala
1Department of Neurology, St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Neurology
|January 3, 2001
Abstract:
Cytomegalovirus ventriculoencephalitis (CMV-VE) is a devastating opportunistic infection seen most frequently in patients with AIDS. The authors describe eight patients with AIDS and CMV-VE, who developed the clinical features of the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, including impaired memory, confabulation, nystagmus, ophthalmoplegia, and ataxia. CMV-VE is perhaps a more frequent cause of the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome than traditional associations.