Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome
Conditions
Interventions
Meets diagnostic criteria for reversible posterior encephalopathy syndrome:None
Not reversible posterior encephalopathy syndrome:None
Sponsors
The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Clinical manifestations of acute neurotoxicity with headache, altered mental state, seizures or altered vision, with or without elevated blood pressure; 2. Risk factors such as hypertension, eclampsia / preeclampsia, infection, autoimmune disease, use of immunosuppressive agents or cytotoxic drugs; 3. The reversible white matter edema of the posterior part of the bilateral cerebral hemisphere, especially the bilateral parietal occipital lobe, the lateral ventricle, the cerebellum, and the brainstem is shown on imaging to be equal or slightly lower on T1WI, and high on T2WI or FLAIR. DWI and ADC images show vasogenic edema; 4. After reasonable treatment, the clinical symptoms obviously improved or disappeared, and the lesions partially or completely disappeared on imaging.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients with intracranial edema lesions secondary to ischemia, hemorrhage, infection, inflammation or mass occupying lesions were excluded; 2. exclude other possible white matter lesions; 3. Patients with or without diagnostic MRI were excluded.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Magnetic resonance examination; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactBo Gao
Guizhou Medcial University
Outcome results
None listed