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Marchiafava-Bignami disease
Classification and external resources
ICD-10 G37.1
ICD-9 341.8
DiseasesDB 31494
eMedicine neuro/204
MeSH D054319

Marchiafava-Bignami disease is a progressive neurological disease characterized by corpus callosum demyelination and necrosis and subsequent atrophy.

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Eponym

It was first described in 1903 by the Italian pathologists Amico Bignami and Ettore Marchiafava in an Italian Chianti drinker.[1][2] In this patient, Marchiafava and Bignami noticed that the middle two-thirds of the corpus callosum were necrotic.

Causes

It is classically associated with chronic alcoholics and sometimes nutritional deficiencies.

See also

Central pontine myelinolysis

References

  1. ^ synd/2922 at Who Named It?
  2. ^ E. Marchiafava, A. Bignami. Sopra un' alterazione del corpo calloso osservata da sogetti alcoolisti. Rivista di patologia nervosa e mentale, 1903, 8 (12): 544-549.

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Pathology of the nervous system, primarily CNS (G04–G47, 323–349)
Inflammation
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myelopathy
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central nervous system navs: anat/physio/dev, noncongen/congen/neoplasia, symptoms+signs/eponymous, proc







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