Neurology · Neurology / Nutritional neurology; Toxicology
Marchiafava–Bignami disease
also: Marchiafava–Bignami syndrome
Corpus callosum demyelination and necrosis.
- Specialty
- Neurology
- Subspecialty
- Neurology / Nutritional neurology; Toxicology
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected, more common; Female: affected; Children: no, middle-aged and elderly
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Marchiafava–Bignami syndrome
Etiology & mechanism
Chronic alcohol use and malnutrition.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (4)
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Shares symptoms with
2 shared
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dysarthria
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seizures
1 shared
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seizures
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seizures
1 shared
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seizures
1 shared
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seizures
1 shared
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dysarthria
1 shared
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seizures
1 shared
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seizures
Shares genes with
None.
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