Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in children with kidney diseases

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 375-384

  Ishikura, Kenji ^a   Hamasaki, Yuko ^a   Sakai, Tomoyuki ^a   Hataya, Hiroshi ^a   Mak, Robert H ^b   Honda, Masataka ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Cyclosporine; Encephalopathy; Hypertension; Kidney diseases; Nephrotic syndrome; Reversible

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BEVACIZUMAB; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CISPLATIN; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTARABINE; DIAZEPAM; HYDRALAZINE; LABETALOL; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; NICARDIPINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ACUTE INTERMITTENT PORPHYRIA; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMA; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDEMA; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; HEADACHE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LETHARGY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; STUPOR; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; VASOGENIC EDEMA; VISUAL DISORDER; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84857058980     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: 1432198X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-011-1873-2     Document Type: Review

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