eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | encephalopathy |
| Comorbidity | C0032914|preeclampsia |
| Sentences | 4 |
| PubMedID- 24591940 | We describe a 23 year old primigravid patient with severe preeclampsia complicated by posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (pres), who presented with sensory and motor deficits and amnesia in the postpartum period cranial magnetic resonance imaging (mri) showed abnormal areas in the white matter of bilateral parieto-occipital lobes, indicating brain edema which disappeared completely on the follow-up scan taken four weeks after delivery together with complete symptom regression. |
| PubMedID- 22068864 | One potential mechanism contributing to the increased risk for encephalopathies in women with preeclampsia is altered cerebral vascular autoregulation resulting from impaired myogenic tone. |
| PubMedID- 19948984 | Neurological findings in preeclampsia fulfill diagnostic criteria of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (pres), which is related to cerebral autoregulation impairment associated with high blood pressure. |
| PubMedID- 22880469 | Acute cortical blindness in preeclampsia--a case of reversible posterior encephalopathy syndrome. |
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