Near fatal posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome complicating chronic liver failure and treated by induced hypothermia and dialysis: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chawla, Rashmi ^a   Smith, Daniel ^b   Marik, Paul E ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMMONIA; ETIRACETAM; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; LACTULOSE; MANNITOL; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PROPOFOL; RIFAXIMIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS HEMODIALYSIS; CRYSTALLOID; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; EXTUBATION; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTUBATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETREATMENT; SALVAGE THERAPY; SEPSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

EID: 72449185169     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-3-6623     Document Type: Article

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