ea0090ep1110 | Late Breaking | ECE2023
Sani Elena
, Da Prato Giuliana
, Gremes Veronica
, Valletta Francesco
, Bariani Matilde
, Grazia Zenti Maria
Introduction: Wernickes encephalopathy, resulting from thiamine deficiency, is a rare but serious neurological complication of bariatric procedures. The diagnosis is still difficult since the classic clinical triad (confusion, ataxia and oculomotor abnormalities) and the typical radiological features (areas of hyperintensity in mammillary bodies, thalamus, periaqueductal and periventricular gray matter) are not always present. Also, thiamine blood tests are not broadly a...