Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Secondary to Varicella Encephalitis

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a rapidly progressive neurologic condition presenting with typical symptoms including headache, nausea, vomiting, altered mental status, and visual defects. Neuroimaging profile, particularly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is the most importa...

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Autores principales: Dawood, Huzaifa, Nasir, Saad, Ahmed, Mushtaq, O'Brien, Claire, Dawood, Mustafa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7861057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33564499
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12484
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author Dawood, Huzaifa
Nasir, Saad
Ahmed, Mushtaq
O'Brien, Claire
Dawood, Mustafa
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Ahmed, Mushtaq
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description Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a rapidly progressive neurologic condition presenting with typical symptoms including headache, nausea, vomiting, altered mental status, and visual defects. Neuroimaging profile, particularly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is the most important tool for diagnosis. The most commonly reported etiological factors include hypertensive emergency and renal disease. We describe a 67-year-old lady who developed clinical and radiological characteristics of PRES secondary to Varicella encephalitis.
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spelling pubmed-78610572021-02-08 Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Secondary to Varicella Encephalitis Dawood, Huzaifa Nasir, Saad Ahmed, Mushtaq O'Brien, Claire Dawood, Mustafa Cureus Neurology Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a rapidly progressive neurologic condition presenting with typical symptoms including headache, nausea, vomiting, altered mental status, and visual defects. Neuroimaging profile, particularly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is the most important tool for diagnosis. The most commonly reported etiological factors include hypertensive emergency and renal disease. We describe a 67-year-old lady who developed clinical and radiological characteristics of PRES secondary to Varicella encephalitis. Cureus 2021-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7861057/ /pubmed/33564499 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12484 Text en Copyright © 2021, Dawood et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Dawood, Huzaifa
Nasir, Saad
Ahmed, Mushtaq
O'Brien, Claire
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Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Secondary to Varicella Encephalitis
title Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Secondary to Varicella Encephalitis
title_full Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Secondary to Varicella Encephalitis
title_fullStr Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Secondary to Varicella Encephalitis
title_full_unstemmed Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Secondary to Varicella Encephalitis
title_short Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Secondary to Varicella Encephalitis
title_sort posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome secondary to varicella encephalitis
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7861057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33564499
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12484
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