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Wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis induced by hyperemesis gravidarum
A Peeters1, F Van de Wyngaert, M Van Lierde
1Service de Neurologie, Cliniques Universitaires St. Luc, Universitè Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
Acta Neurologica Belgica
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
A 21-year-old woman developed hyperemesis gravidarum, complicated by Wernicke's encephalopathy and central pontine myelinolysis. For the latter, time course of the lesions on magnetic resonance imaging suggests a pathogenetic role for hypophosphatemia rather than for hyponatremia.