Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in the intensive care unit after liver transplant: A comparison of our experience with the existing literature

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 847-850

  Lunardi, N ^a   Saraceni, E ^a   Boccagni, P ^a   Segato, M ^a   Bortolato, A ^a   Manara, R ^a   Rossi, S ^a   Ori, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neurotoxicity syndromes; Tacrolimus; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DOXAZOSIN; EVEROLIMUS; FENOLDOPAM; MANNITOL; MINOXIDIL; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; NICARDIPINE; PHENYTOIN; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVULSION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDEMA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER GRAFT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; TRACHEOSTOMY; VOMITING;

BRAIN; CRITICAL CARE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 84864463786     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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