TY - JOUR T1 - [Eye paralysis and confusion]. AU - Raasveld,M H, AU - Romijn,J A, PY - 1998/4/29/pubmed PY - 1998/4/29/medline PY - 1998/4/29/entrez SP - 2537 EP - 9 JF - Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde JO - Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd VL - 141 IS - 52 N2 - Two patients, women of 85 and 76 years, presented with horizontal ocular paresis. The first patient had a palliative ileocecal resection for adenocarcinoma with metastases and developed the ocular paresis only after intravenous glucose infusion. The second had chronic haemolytic anaemia and weight loss due to malnutrition. The two women were also confused. In both patients acute Wernicke's encephalopathy was diagnosed, caused by thiamine deficiency. The disorder could easily have been missed because of confounding clinical problems. Early treatment of Wernicke's encephalopathy (thiamine 100 mg/day intramuscularly for 3 days) is of major importance in preventing permanent neurological damage or even death. SN - 0028-2162 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/9555150/[Eye_paralysis_and_confusion]_ L2 - http://www.diseaseinfosearch.org/result/5584 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -