Introduction: Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is characterized by headache, nausea and vomiting, seizures and visual disturbances. It has certain characteristic radiological features, which allow diagnosis in the appropriate clinical setting and enable appropriate clinical therapy to be instituted. Case presentation: A 10-year-old Caucasian girl who was hospitalized due to recurren...

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OBJECTIVE To describe a 71-year-old woman who developed clinical and neuroradiological features of posterior reversible leukoencephalopathy syndrome with a compromised blood-brain barrier after 5 days of intravenous linezolid therapy for an infected hip prosthesis. DESIGN Case report. SETTING Academic research. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Posterior reversible leukoencephalopathy syndrome was do...

INTRODUCTION Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is characterized by headache, nausea and vomiting, seizures and visual disturbances. It has certain characteristic radiological features, which allow diagnosis in the appropriate clinical setting and enable appropriate clinical therapy to be instituted. CASE PRESENTATION A 10-year-old Caucasian girl who was hospitalized due to recurren...

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is a transient clinical neuroradiological entity. Clinical signs include headache, vision changes, altered mental status and generalized seizure. Although well-known by neurologists, posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is under-recognized and undertreated by obstetricians because symptoms overlap with preeclampsia. Yet, correct and prompt di...

BACKGROUND Posterior reversible encephalopathy is a syndrome highly associated with hypertension and cytotoxic therapy. The syndrome typically presents with headache, visual abnormality, seizures and characteristic vasogenic edema on magnetic resonance imaging. The entity warrants a prompt diagnosis to avoid deteriorating consequences. CASE PRESENTATION In this report, we describe a 15-year-o...