The role of seizures in reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy

Seizure

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 277-281

  Obeid, Tahir ^a   Shami, A ^a   Karsou, S ^a  

^a KING KHALID NATIONAL GUARD HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Leukoencephalopathy; MRI; Seizures

Indexed keywords

CAPTOPRIL; DIAZEPAM; HYDRALAZINE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE COURSE; ECLAMPSIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMISPHERE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 2342659013     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1059-1311(03)00152-3     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Bauer, J., Stefan, H., Huk, W. J., Feistel, H. et al. CT, MRI and SPECT neuroimaging in status epilepticus with simple, partial and complex partial seizures: case report. Journal of Neurology 1989; 236: 296-299.
2. Bakshi, R., Bates, V. E., Mechtler, L. L., Kinkel, P. R. and Kinkel, R. W. Occipital lobe seizures as the major clinical manifestation of reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome: magnetic resonance imaging findings. Epilepsia 1998; 39: 295-299.
3. De Carolis, P., Crisci, M., Laudadio, S., Baldrati, A. and Sacquegna, T. Transient abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging after partial status epilepticus. Italian Journal of Neurological Sciences 1992; 13: 267-299.
4. Fazekas, F., Kapeller, P., Schmidt, R. et al. Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy findings after focal status epilepticus. Epilepsia 1995; 36: 946-949.
5. Flacke, S., Wullner, U., Keller, E., Hamzei, F. and Urbach, H. Reversible changes in echo planar perfusion- and diffusion-weighted MRI in status epilepticus. Neuroradiology 2000; 42: 92-95.
6. Garg, R. K. Posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome. Post-graduate Medical Journal 2001; 77: 24-28.
7. Hinchey, J., Chaves, C., Appignanin, B. et al. A reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy. The New England Journal of Medicine 1996; 334: 494-500.
8. Kim, J. A., Chung, I. C., Yoon, P. H. et al. Transient MR signal changes in patients with generalized tonicoclonic seizure or status epilepticus: periictal diffusion-weighted imaging. American Journal of Neuroradiology 2001; 22: 1149-1160.
9. Lansberg, M. G., O'Brien, M. W., Norbash, A. M., Moseley, M. E., Morrell, M. and Albers, G. W. MRI abnormalities associated with status epilepticus. Neurology 1999; 52: 1021-1027.
10. Meierkord, H., Wieshmann, U., Niehaus, L. and Lehmann, R. Structural consequences of status epilepticus demonstrated with serial magnetic resonance imaging. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 1997; 96: 127-132.
11. Minagar, A., De Toledo, J. C. and Falcone, S. Cortical-subcortical lesions in "reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome": encephalopathy or seizures? Journal of Neurology 2001; 248: 537-540.
12. Obeid, T. and Awada, A. Posterior leukoencephalopathy without severe hypertension: utility of diffusion-weighted MRI. Neurology 1999; 53: 1372-1373.
13. Tien, R. D. and Felsberg, G. J. The hippocampus in status epilepticus: demonstration of signal intensity and morphologic changes with sequential fast spin-echo MR imaging. Radiology 1995; 194: 249-256.
14. Wennberg, R. A. Clinical and MRI evidence that occipital lobe seizures can be the major manifestation of the reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy. Epilepsia 1998; 39: 1381-1383.
15. Yaffe, K., Ferriero, D., Barkovich, A. J. and Rowley, H. Reversible MRI abnormalities following seizures. Neurology 1995; 45: 104-108.