Tariq Saeed Siddiqui, Irfanul Haq, Bushra Rehman, Mhaish Kumar, Noshin Iqbal.
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES).
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak Jan ;22(3):168-70.

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinicoradiologic entity. Neurotoxicity with characteristic watershed CT/MR imaging features characterize this condition. This case report describes PRES syndrome in a 35-year-old patient admitted with eclampsia. On the first postpartum day; she developed severe headache, generalized tonic-clonic seizures and visual symptoms including transient visual loss. MRI scan of the brain showed symmetric areas of hyperintense signal on T2-weighted images in the occipital lobes bilaterally. Patient improved symptomatically. Repeat MRI of the brain 4 months after initial admission showed resolution of the previous abnormalities.

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