| Alcoholic Myopathy Accompanied with Acute Reversible Encephalopathy |
| Jong Kuk Kim, Ji-Hyun Lee, Min-Jeong Kim, Bong-Goo Yoo, Kwang-Soo Kim, Sang-Myung Cheon, Hee Young Jo, and Sang Won Yi |
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| Copyright © 2005 The Korean Society of Clinical Neurophysiology |
| This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly cited. |
| ABSTRACT |
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Patients of chronic alcoholism may show many kinds of complications such as myopathy, nutritional problems,peripheral neuropathy, withdrawal seizure and encephalopathies. We report an unusual case of alcoholic myopathy diagnosed with typical laboratory and pathological findings initially manifested as acute reversible encephalopathy showing transient abnormalities on brain MRI. |
| Key words:
Alcohol, Myopathy, Encephalopathy |
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