MR Imaging Findings in Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Acute Wernicke’s Encephalopathy: A Review
Figure 5
Thirty-three-year-old woman, primipara, in her 16th week of gestation, with a 3-week history of severe persistent nausea and vomiting accompanied by a 6 kg weight loss. FLAIR coronal (a) and T2-weighted sagittal (b) images showing bilateral and symmetric hyperintense signal alteration at the level of the medial portion of the thalami and of the lower portion of the tectal plate. A 3-week posttherapy (thiamine administered 100 mg/day intravenously for 10 days then 300 mg/day orally) brain MRI showed partial resolution of the signal abnormalities previously observed (c-d).
