Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Wernicke’s 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...