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Query: UMLS:C0085584 (
encephalopathy
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document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Chronic alcohol abuse causes several distinct diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system. Widely known are the alcohol withdrawal syndrome, alcohol-induced epileptic seizures,
alcoholic polyneuropathy
and myopathy, and Wernicke's encephalopathy. Beside these complications, less common syndromes have been identified, including Marchiafava-Bignami syndrome, subacute
encephalopathy
with seizure activity (SESA syndrome), and tobacco alcohol amblyopia. These syndromes can be diagnosed by their characteristic features in cranial MRI or in EEG. Moreover, certain disorders in which alcohol abuse is only indirectly involved in the pathogenesis are more frequent in alcoholics than in nonalcoholics. In daily practice, it is important to differentiate these disorders when encountering patients with chronic alcohol abuse.
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PMID:[Neurologic sequelae of chronic alcoholism]. 1266 5
