title: Wernicke encephalopathy and ethanol-related syndromes.
abstract: Ethanol causes diverse neurologic conditions caused by acute and chronic brain damage. This review provides an overview of Wernicke encephalopathy and other ethanol-related brain changes, such as chronic brain atrophy, Marchiafava-Bignami disease, osmotic demyelination syndrome, chronic hepatic encephalopathy, and acute alcohol withdrawal. As clinical symptoms of this spectrum of diseases have nonspecific neurologic alterations, radiologists should have current radiologic information and understand the imaging findings pertaining to the pathophysiology to support diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Tae Eun
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: ejl1048@hanmail.net.
authors.forename: Eun Ja
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jeong Bo
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Young
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Dong Jae
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ji Hoon
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D000431:Ethanol / Q000506:poisoning*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*; D014899:Wernicke Encephalopathy / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol