Licorice consumption as a cause of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: A case report

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  van Beers, Eduard J ^a   Stam, Jan ^a   van den Bergh, Walter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; LABETALOL; POTASSIUM;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLYCYRRHIZA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; METABOLIC ALKALOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL EDEMA; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; SMOKING CESSATION; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; SYLVIAN FISSURE; T WAVE AMPLITUDE; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED;

FEMALE; GLYCYRRHIZA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME;

EID: 79951562227     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10040     Document Type: Article

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