Hemorrhagic stroke with intraventricular extension in the setting of acute posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES): Case report

Neurocirugia

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-61

  Gasco, Jaime ^a   Rangel Castilla, L ^a   Clark, S ^a   Franklin, B ^c   Satchithanandam, L ^b   Salinas, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

External ventriculostomy drainage; Intracranial hemorrhage; Intraventricular hemorrhage; Preeclampsia; PRES; Reversible encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; ENALAPRIL; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; NICARDIPINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUMBOPERITONEAL SHUNT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; SEIZURE; SHUNTING; STROKE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; STROKE; SYNDROME;

EID: 67249089300     PISSN: 11301473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1130-1473(09)70197-6     Document Type: Article

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