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Background: Wernicke-Korsakoff encephalopathy is a metabolic disease caused by vitamin B1 deficiency that predominantly affects alcoholic patients. Its clinical picture is characterized mainly by ...

Increasing the glucose supply to the thiamine deficient brain (as with intravenous D50) may increase the metabolic pollution and induce Wernicke’s encephalopathy. Ocular changes Altered mental ...