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Marciafava-Binyamy disease: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Marciafava-Binyamy's disease is rare and is a demyelination of the corpus callosum with chronic alcoholism, as a rule, in men.
The nature of the pathology links this disease with the syndrome of osmotic demyelination (formerly called the central pontinus myelolysis), a variant of which this disorder can be. With Marciafawa-Binyami disease, excitation and confusion are observed against the background of progressive dementia and signs of frontal disinhibition. Some patients recover after a few months; others have convulsions and coma, which can lead to death.
