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Korsakoff's DiseaseAka: Alcohol Amnestic Disorder

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  1. Causes
    1. Untreated Thiamine deficiency from Alcoholism
  2. Pathophysiology
    1. Follows Wernicke's Encephalopathy
    2. Lesions develop in mammillary bodies and thalamus
  3. Signs
    1. Severe Short Term Memory loss
    2. Intact immediate memory
    3. Confabulation
  4. Management
    1. Thiamine (See Wernicke's Encephalopathy)
  5. Prognosis
    1. Life-long Impairment
    2. Improvement in 75% of patients with treatment

Alcohol Amnestic Disorder (C0001940)

Definition (MSH)A mental disorder associated with chronic ethanol abuse (ALCOHOLISM) and nutritional deficiencies characterized by short term memory loss, confabulations, and disturbances of attention. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1139)
ConceptsMental or Behavioral Dysfunction (T048)
ICD9291.1
MSHD000425
EnglishALCOHOL AMNESTIC DIS, Alcohol Amnestic Disorder, Alcohol Amnestic Disorders, ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDR, Alcohol Amnestic Syndrome, Alcohol Amnestic Syndromes, ALCOHOL IND AMNESTIC PSYCHOSIS, ALCOHOL IND AMNESTIC SYNDROME, ALCOHOL IND DYSMNESIC PSYCHOSIS, ALCOHOL IND DYSMNESIC SYNDROME, ALCOHOL IND KORSAKOFF SYNDROME, ALCOHOL IND PERSISTING AMNESTIC DIS, Alcohol Induced Amnestic Psychosis, Alcohol Induced Amnestic Syndrome, Alcohol Induced Dysmnesic Psychosis, Alcohol Induced Dysmnesic Syndrome, Alcohol Induced Korsakoff Syndrome, Alcohol Induced Persisting Amnestic Disorder, Alcohol-Induced Amnestic Psychoses, Alcohol-Induced Amnestic Psychosis, Alcohol-Induced Amnestic Syndrome, Alcohol-Induced Amnestic Syndromes, Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic Psychoses, Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic Psychosis, Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic Syndrome, Alcohol-Induced Dysmnesic Syndromes, Alcohol-Induced Korsakoff Syndrome, Alcohol-Induced Korsakoff Syndromes, Alcohol-Induced Persisting Amnestic Disorder, Alcoholic amnestic syndrome, Alcoholic Korsakoff Syndrome, Alcoholic Korsakoff Syndromes, Alcoholic Korsakoff's Psychosis, alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome, alcoholic Korsakov's psychosis, Amnesic syndrome due to alcohol, AMNESTIC PSYCHOSIS ALCOHOL IND, Korsakov alcoholic psychosis, Korsakov syndrome - alcoholic
Spanishtrastorno amnesico persistente inducido por el alcohol, trastorno amnesico por el alcohol
Parent ConceptsPsychoses, Alcoholic (C0033936), Alcohol-induced mental disorders (C1456285), Amnesia (C0002622), Alcohol-Related Disorders (C0236664), Alcohol-Induced Disorders, Nervous System (C0751865), Amnestic Disorder (C0002625), [X]Mental and behavioral disorders due to use of alcohol (C0349096), Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome (C0349464)
SourcesAOD, ICD9CM, MSH, NCI, NDFRT, SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)



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