Dialysis disequilibrium: Another reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome?

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 249-252

  Sheth, Kevin N ^a   Wu, Gregory F ^a   Messé, Steven R ^a   Wolf, Ronald L ^b   Kasner, Scott E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome; Neuroimaging; Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; CLONIDINE; DILTIAZEM; LORAZEPAM; METOPROLOL; MORPHINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; OMEPRAZOLE; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; ZOLPIDEM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIALYSIS DISEQUILIBRIUM SYNDROME; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGING; INTUBATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; TENDON REFLEX; TOXICOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0041383006     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-8467(03)00039-8     Document Type: Article

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