<page_title> List of medical triads, tetrads, and pentads </page_title> <section_title> Triads </section_title> <table> <cell> Confusion, ophthalmoplegia, ataxia <col_header> Triad </col_header> </cell> <cell> Wernicke encephalopathy <col_header> Disease </col_header> </cell> </table>
Wernicke encephalopathy is characterised by the triad – ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, and confusion.