Transient splenial lesion after recovery of cerebral vasoconstriction and posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: A case report of eclampsia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1407-1411

  Sekine, Tokinori ^a   Ikeda, Ken ^b   Hirayama, Takehisa ^b   Suzuki, Akira ^a   Iwasaki, Yasuo ^b  

^a Toshiba Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY OMORI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eclampsia; MR angiography; MRI; Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome; Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome; Transient splenial lesion

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; OLMESARTAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRANSIENT SPLENIAL LESION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; SEIZURES; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 84863104983     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.7153     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Casey SO, Sampaio RC, Michel E, Truwit CL. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: utility of FLAIR imaging in the detection of cortical and sub cortical lesions. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 21: 1199-1206, 2000.
2. Schwartz RB, Mulkern RV, Gudbjartsson H, Jolesz F. Diffusion weighted MR imaging in hypertensive encephalopathy: clues to pathogenesis. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 19: 859-862, 1998.
3. Dillon W, Rowley H. The reversible posterior cerebral edema syndrome. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 19: 591, 1998.
4. Hinchey J, Chaves C, Appignani B, et al. A reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome. N Engl J Med 334: 494-500, 1996.
5. Ay H, Buonanno FS, Schaefer PW, et al. Posterior leukoencephalopathy without severe hypertension: utility of diffusion-weighted MRI. Neurology 51: 1369-1376, 1998.
6. Covarrubias DJ, Luetmer PH, Campeau NG. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: prognostic utility of quantitative diffusion-weighted MR images. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 23: 1038-1048, 2002.
7. Singhal AB. Postpartum angiopathy with reversible posterior leu-koencephalopathy. Arch Neurol 61: 411-416, 2004.
8. Raps EC, Galetta SL, Broderick M, Atlas SW. Delayed peripartum vasculopathy: cerebral eclampsia revisited. Ann Neurol 33: 222-225, 1993.
9. Donaldson JO. Eclampsia and postpartum cerebral angiopathy. J Neurol Sci 178: 1, 2000.
10. Black KS, Mirsky P, Kalina P, et al. Angiographic demonstration of reversible cerebral vasospasm in porphyric encephalopathy. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 16: 1650-1652, 1995.
11. Ito Y, Niwa H, Iida T, et al. Post-transfusion reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome with cerebral vasoconstriction. Neurology 49: 1174-1175, 1997.
12. Boughammoura A, Touze E, Oppenheim C, Trystram D, Mas JL. Reversible angiopathy and encephalopathy after blood transfusion. J Neurol 250: 116-118, 2003.
13. Lin JT, Wang SJ, Fuh JL, Hsiao LT, Lirng JF, Chen PM. Prolonged reversible vasospasm in cyclosporin A-induced encephalo-pathy. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 24: 102-104, 2003.
14. Maeda M, Tsukahara H, Terada H, et al. Reversible splenial lesion with restricted diffusion in a wide spectrum of diseases and conditions. J Neuroradiol 33: 229-236, 2006.
15. Takanashi J, Barkovich AJ, Shiihara T, et al. Widening spectrum of a reversible splenial lesion with transiently reduced diffusion. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 27: 836-838, 2006.
16. Gürtler S, Ebner A, Tuxhorn I, Ollech I, Pohlmann-Eden B, Woer-mann FG. Transient lesion in the splenium of the corpus callosum and antiepileptic drug withdrawal. Neurology 65: 1032-1036, 2005.
17. Maeda M, Shiroyama T, Tsukahara H, Shimono T, Aoki S, Takeda K. Transient splenial lesion of the corpus callosum associated with antiepileptic drugs: evaluation by diffusion-weighted MR imaging. Eur Radiol 13: 1902-1906, 2003.
18. Mirsattari SM, Lee DH, Jones MW, Blume WT. Transient lesion in the splenium of the corpus callosum in an epileptic patient. Neurology 60: 1838-1841, 2003.
19. Oster J, Doherty C, Grant PE, Simon M, Cole AJ. Diffusion-weighted imaging abnormalities in the splenium after seizures. Epilepsia 44: 852-854, 2003.
20. Prilipko O, Delavelle J, Lazeyras F, Seeck M. Reversible cytotoxic edema in the splenium of the corpus callosum related to antiepi-leptic treatment: report of two cases and literature review. Epilep-sia 46: 1633-1636, 2005.
21. Kano O, Iwamoto K, Nakamura Y, et al. Transient restricted diffusion of whole corpus callosum and symmetric white matter in epilepsy. Intern Med 48: 583-584, 2009.
22. Koch S, Rabinstein A, Falcone S, Forteza A. Diffusion-weighted imaging shows cytotoxic and vasogenic edema in eclampsia. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 22: 1068-1070, 2001.