Reversible multifocal leukoencephalopathy associated with a nocturnal blood pressure non-dipper pattern

Blood Pressure

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 267-269

  Kaut, Oliver ^a   Kovacs, Attila ^a   Okulla, Thorsten ^a   Urbach, Horst ^a   Klockgether, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Blood pressure; Brain; Leukoencephalopathy

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; DOXAZOSIN; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; RAMIPRIL; URAPIDIL;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; NIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSIBLE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME;

EID: 77955331472     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: 16511999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08037051003718390     Document Type: Article

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