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Descriptor English: Marchiafava-Bignami Disease
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedad de Marchiafava-Bignami
Descriptor enfermedad de Marchiafava-Bignami
Scope note: Afección neurodegenerativa caracterizada por desmielinización o necrosis del CUERPO CALLOSO. Los síntomas comprenden DEPRESIÓN, TRASTORNOS PARANOIDES, DEMENCIA, CONVULSIONES y ATAXIA que pueden progresar a COMA y muerte en unos meses. El síndrome de Marchiafava-Bignami se presenta con frecuencia en alcohólicos pero también se puede dar en individuos no alcohólicos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Doença de Marchiafava-Bignami
Descriptor French: Maladie de Marchiafava-Bignami
Entry term(s): Marchiafava Bignami Disease
Marchiafava Bignami Syndrome
Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome
Tree number(s): C10.228.140.163.510
C10.314.475
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D054319
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.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Demyelinating Diseases (1965-2007)
Public MeSH Note: 2008
History Note: 2008
DeCS ID: 52589
Unique ID: D054319
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2008/01/01
Date of Entry: 2007/07/09
Marchiafava-Bignami Disease - Preferred
Concept UI M0503970
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.
Preferred term Marchiafava-Bignami Disease
Entry term(s) Marchiafava Bignami Disease
Marchiafava Bignami Syndrome
Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome



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