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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases > Brain Diseases, Metabolic > Marchiafava-Bignami Disease
Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Brain Diseases > Brain Diseases, Metabolic > Marchiafava-Bignami Disease
Nervous System Diseases > Demyelinating Diseases > Marchiafava-Bignami Disease

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Marchiafava-Bignami Disease  

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Entry terms

  • Marchiafava Bignami Syndrome
  • Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome

Scope note

  • A neurodegenerative condition that is characterized by demyelination or necrosis of the CORPUS CALLOSUM. Symptoms include DEPRESSION; PARANOIA; DEMENTIA; SEIZURES; and ATAXIA which can progress to COMA and death in a few months. Marchiafava-Bignami syndrome is seen often in alcoholics but has been found in non-alcoholics as well.

History note

  • 2008

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D054319

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