Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: A review

Seminars in Neurology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 202-215

  Feske, Steven K ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

blood brain barrier; cerebral autoregulation; endothelial dysfunction; Hypertensive encephalopathy; posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CAPTOPRIL; CYCLOSPORIN A; DIAZOXIDE; ENALAPRILAT; FENOLDOPAM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDRALAZINE; LABETALOL; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METOPROLOL; NICARDIPINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENTOLAMINE; TRIMETAPHAN;

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; AUTOREGULATION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASOSPASM; BRONCHOSPASM; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; CYANIDE POISONING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MECHANISM; ECLAMPSIA; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FETUS DISTRESS; FLUSHING; HEART BLOCK; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; HYPOTENSION; ILEUS; INTOXICATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYDRIASIS; NAUSEA; NEUROIMAGING; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA CRISIS; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX TACHYCARDIA; RESPIRATORY ARREST; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TACHYCARDIA; THIOCYANATE TOXICITY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; URINE RETENTION; XEROSTOMIA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; SYNDROME;

EID: 79956216190     PISSN: 02718235     EISSN: 10989021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1277990     Document Type: Review

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