Case Report
Wernicke’s Encephalopathy: An Unusual Consequence of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome—Case Report and Literature Review
Table 1
Reported cases of Wernicke’s encephalopathy.
| Author | Year | Age | Antemortem diagnosis | Initial complaint | Other findings | Alcoholism |
| Foresti | 1987 | 26 | No | NR | Malnutrition | No | Davtyan | 1987 | 46 | No | Diarrhea, cough, weakness | Seizure, GI bleeding | No | Soffer | 1989 | 40 | Yes | Fever and cough | PCP pneumonia, Candida meningitis | No | Schwenk | 1990 | 36 | No | GI bleeding | Tuberculosis, lymphoma | No | Schwenk | 1990 | 39 | No | Fever, weight loss, cognitive impairment | Pneumonia | No | Monatine | 1993 | 41 | No | Weight loss, diarrhea, blurry vision | MAC, candidiasis | No | Burdge | 1995 | 33 | No | Fatigue, unsteady gait, slurred speech | PCP, herpetic esophagitis | No | Alcaide | 2003 | 37 | No | Altered mental status, unsteady gait, slurred speech | Syphilis | No | Gui | 2006 | 59 | No | Abdominal pain, jaundice, vomiting | Malnutrition | No | Gui | 2006 | 73 | No | Altered mental status | Malnutrition | No | Gui | 2006 | 33 | No | Jaundice, vomiting | Malnutrition | No | Larsen | 2013 | 31 | Yes | Dyspnea, cough, weight loss | PCP pneumonia | No |
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NR: not reported; GI: gastrointestinal; PCP: pneumocystis pneumonia; MAC: mycobacterium avium complex.
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