PRES: Posterior or potentially reversible encephalopathy syndrome?

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 187-189

  Narbone, M C ^a   Musolino, R ^b   Granata, F ^b   Mazzu I ^b   Abbate, M ^b   Ferlazzo, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain MRI; Eclamptic encephalopathy; PRES

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CLONIDINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAZEPAM; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MANNITOL; NIFEDIPINE;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POTENTIALLY REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CLONIDINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAZEPAM; DIURETICS, OSMOTIC; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MANNITOL; NIFEDIPINE; PREGNANCY; SEIZURES;

EID: 33746768112     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-006-0667-y     Document Type: Article

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