ABNORMAL VARIANT OF PRES - A CASE REPORT

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  • DR.SATHISH PRABHU Department of Radiodiagnosis, Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital, India
  • DR.PRABAKARAN.M Department of Radiodiagnosis, Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital, India

Keywords:

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES), clinic radiologic entity, cytotoxic edema

Abstract

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) its known as hypertensive encephalopathy, is a neurotoxic state that occurs secondary due to the inability of auto-regulatory  response to acute changes in blood pressure. Its associated with multiple  complex conditions such as preeclampsia/eclampsia,allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, organ transplantation autoimmune disease and high dose chemotherapy. The correlation of imaging and clinical features is necessary for the diagnosis. Here we are going to discuss about the unique abnormal variant of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome

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31.12.2014

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DR.SATHISH PRABHU, & DR.PRABAKARAN.M. (2014). ABNORMAL VARIANT OF PRES - A CASE REPORT. International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences, 5(4), 79–82. Retrieved from https://ijpbs.net/index.php/journal/article/view/3721

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