Remember the clinical features of Wenicke-Korsakoff psychosis using the mnemonic COAT RACK.
Wernicke’s encephalopathy (acute phase)
- Confusion
- Ophthalmoplegia
- Ataxia
- Thiamine tx.
Korsakoff’s psychosis (chronic phase)
- Retrograde amnesia
- Anterograde amnesia
- Confabulation
- Korsakoff’s psychosis
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