Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy, cerebral vasoconstriction, and strokes after intravenous immune globulin therapy in Guillain-Barré syndrome

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 188-192

  Doss Esper, Christine E ^a   Singhal, Aneesh B ^a   Smith, Marsha S A ^a   Henderson, Galen V ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Intravenous immune globulin (IVIg); Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome (RPLS); Stroke; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STROKE;

AGED; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 15244351049     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1051228404273820     Document Type: Article

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