Alcoholic fatty liver

Disease class: Fatty liver

Oesophagitis

Disease class: Oesophageal diseases

This refers to inflammation of the oesophagus.

 

Subtypes

• Eosinophilic oesophagitis
• oesophagitis, Peptic

 

Causes

• Candidiasis
• Alcohol consumption

Oesophageal perforation

Disease class: Oesophageal diseases

Types

• Mallory-Weiss syndrome

Wernicke encephalopathy

Disease class: brain diseases, Metabolic 

 

Also known as 

• WE 
• Wernicke's disease

When WE occurs with Korsakoff syndrome the diagnosis is Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.

 

Pathophysiology

It is caused by vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency.

 

Symptoms

• Unsteady gait 
• Blurred vision
• Confusion

 

Signs

• Ophthalmoplegia
• Ataxia

 

Risk factors

• Chronic alcohol misuse
• Poverty
• Psychiatric disorders