Atypical cases of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: Clinical and MRI features

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 564-566

  Bhagavati, Satyakam ^a   Choi, Jai ^b  

^a SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CYTOKINE; ENDOTHELIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLAGEN DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PONS; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; STUPOR; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; UNSTEADINESS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOSPASM; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WHITE MATTER;

ALCOHOLISM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; VASOCONSTRICTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53949125567     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000164556     Document Type: Article

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