Epilepsy after neuroimaging normalization in a woman with tacrolimus-related posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 558-560

  Baldini, Mariella ^a   Bartolini, Emanuele ^a   Gori, Sara ^a   Bonanni, Enrica ^a   Cosottini, Mirco ^a   Iudice, Alfonso ^a   Murri, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome; Seizure

Indexed keywords

LAMIVUDINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OXCARBAZEPINE; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DELTA RHYTHM; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEADACHE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PROGNOSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WHITE MATTER;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TACROLIMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952240231     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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