随着社会酒类生产和消费量的增加,慢性酒精中毒者有逐年上升的趋势。据国内一项调查表明,在44920例15～65岁的不同职业者中,酒依赖者有1673例,这足以引起社会和临床医生的重视。乙醇为一种神经毒,几乎可以损害神经系统的所有部位,在诸多慢性酒精中毒的神经系统疾病中,桥脑中央髓鞘溶解症(CPM)较少见,现结合文献对其浅述如下。 With the increase of social alcohol production and consumption, chronic alcoholism has a tendency of increasing year by year. According to a survey conducted in China, out of 44,920 different occupations aged 15 to 65 years, 1673 alcohol-dependent people are enough to arouse the attention of the community and clinicians. Ethanol is a neurotoxic drug that can damage almost all parts of the nervous system. Among many chronic neurotoxic diseases of chronic alcoholism, central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) is rare, and is briefly described in the literature.