title: Wernicke's encephalopathy-like lesions in global cerebral hypoxia.
abstract: We report a patient with severe hypoxic encephalopathy after cardiac arrest, in which lesions depicted on MRI involved mainly the periaqueductal brainstem, hypothalamus and mamillary bodies, and medial thalami. Hypoxia usually causes cerebro-cerebellar cortical damage. However, it may also cause midline lesions of similar distribution to those of Wernicke's encephalopathy due to thiamine deficiency.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Hiratsuka Kyosai Hospital, 9-11 Oiwake, Hiratsuka 254-8502, Kanagawa, Japan. johkura-k@kkr.hiratsuka.kanagawa.jp
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Johkura
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Naito
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D014899:Wernicke Encephalopathy / Q000473:pathology*