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19733990

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-7-12
pubmed:abstractText
A 14-year-old female had repeated vomiting, headache, abdominal pain, visual field deficit and lethargy at the onset of hypertensive encephalopathy. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) test revealed a high level of IgG and protein. MRI demonstrated no supratentorial cerebral lesions but hyperintense lesions were observed from the lower pons to the Th8 level of spinal cord and cerebellar cortex on T2 weighted and FLAIR images without contrast enhancement. The two antihypertensive drugs stabilized to control her blood pressure and improved her clinical symptoms. Reexamination of MRI and cerebrospinal fluid test also revealed clear improvement of the above abnormalities. The abnormal findings on abdominal CT and renography led us to suspect renal infarction. Abdominal angiography demonstrated multifocal stenoses of renal interlobar arteries, which were supposed to supply the renal infarcted regions. These suggested that the renal infarctions due to fibromuscular dysplasia caused systemic hypertension. There have been only two reports that demonstrated spinal cord lesions in reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome (RPLES). We report extensive spinal lesions on MRI and a high level of IgG in CSF at the subacute phase in a young female with RPLES associated with hypertensive (brainstem) encephalopathy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1872-7131
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2009. Published by Elsevier B.V.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
598-601
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
A case of hypertensive encephalopathy with extensive spinal lesions on MRI.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics, Tenri Hospital, Nara, Japan. masako_nagato@office.city.kobe.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports