RETRACTED
At the request of the authors, this article has been retracted. The coroner reviewed the case and postmortem histopathology and concluded that the typical histopathological lesions of Wernicke’s encephalopathy were absent, therefore not confirming the initial diagnosis. Reexamination of the patient’s file showed that postoperative vitamin B1 levels were within the institutional reference range; no hyperemesis and no neurological signs were revealed. The article stated that “This report is published with the written consent of the patient’s family,” but there was misunderstanding and the family did not give explicit permission for publication.

Case Reports in Surgery

Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 281210, 4 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/281210

Case Report

A Fatal Case of Wernicke’s Encephalopathy after Sleeve Gastrectomy for Morbid Obesity

Dimitrios K. Manatakis and Nikolaos Georgopoulos

2nd Surgical Department, Athens Naval and Veterans Hospital, 70 Deinokratous Street, Athens, Greece

Received 2 July 2014; Accepted 26 August 2014; Published 7 September 2014

Academic Editor: Kevin Reavis

Copyright © 2014 Dimitrios K. Manatakis and Nikolaos Georgopoulos. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.