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We read the paper by Gomes I et al i . with great interest.1 They showed the existence of patients with thiamine deficiency unrelated to alcohol consumption even in high-income countries, and that alerting healthcare professionals working in clinical practice to this fact contributed to improving the quality of medical care. Wernicke encephalopathy presented in the form of postoperative delirium in a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma and liver cirrhosis: a case report and review of the literature. Early detection and successful treatment of Wernicke encephalopathy in a patient with advanced carcinoma of the external genitalia during chemotherapy. [Extracted from the article]

As a good complement to the focused material in our paper, we are grateful for the helpful review of thiamine deficiency as it relates to cancer that Onishi and colleagues provided in their correspondence. We would like to thank Onishi and colleagues for their interest in our review. Reply to the letter to the editor "Thiamine deficiency unrelated to alcohol consumption in high-income countries: a literature review". [Extracted from the article]