Blurred vision with acute hypertension indicating hypertensive brainstem encephalopathy - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 625-630

  Ogaki, Kotaro ^a   Fukae, Jiro ^a   Noda, Kazuyuki ^a   Fujishima, Kenji ^a   Hattori, Nobutaka ^b   Okuma, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SHIZUOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Fetal type posterior cerebral artery; Hypertensive encephalopathy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Visual disturbance

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; CRYOGLOBULIN; HEMOGLOBIN; RENIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSIVE BRAINSTEM ENCEPHALOPATHY; LABORATORY TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN STEM; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; THALAMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION, LOW;

EID: 74049163795     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.49.625     Document Type: Article

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