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Neuroimaging of chronic alcohol misuse

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posted on 2024-06-04, 07:08 authored by C Logan, Hamed AsadiHamed Asadi, HK Kok, ST Looby, P Brennan, A O'Hare, J Thornton
Alcohol is one of the most commonly abused substances worldwide. It results in a wide range of diseases and disorders affecting many organ systems. Alcohol-related nutritional deficiencies and electrolyte disturbance leave chronic abusers at risk of a range of demyelinating conditions to which the radiologist and clinician should always be alert. These include Wernicke's encephalopathy, Korsakoff's syndrome, Marchiafava-Bignami disease and osmotic demyelination. Cerebral volume loss is also a commonly encountered neuroimaging phenomenon in chronic alcohol abusers. Neuroimaging with CT and MR, with a focus on FLAIR and diffusion-weighted MR sequences, play an important role in the diagnosis and often monitoring of these conditions. We present an educational review of these entities in terms of their clinical features, neuropathology and imaging features along with a case example of each condition.

History

Journal

Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology

Volume

61

Pagination

435-440

Location

Milton, Qld.

Open access

  • Yes

ISSN

1754-9477

eISSN

1754-9485

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article, C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2016, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists

Issue

4

Publisher

Wiley