PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | headache |
| Phenotype | C1527311|brain edema |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 26523259 | Some patients (less than 3%) may present with isolated deep ich, making differential diagnosis challenging.13) posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (pres) is an another clinical-radiologic syndrome characterized by reversible, posterior-predominant brain edema, usually associated with headache, altered mental status, seizures, and visual symptoms, but also often complicated by stroke.14)17) in a retrospective study of 263 pres patients, 46 patients (17%) presented with ich but only 4 (1.5%) had deep ich.18) although the exact causes of these reversible syndromes are poorly understood, these entities may share some common pathophysiologic elements leading to hemorrhagic stroke and, rarely, deep ich.11) we report on two young female patients who presented with deep ich and were later diagnosed as rcvs and pres. |
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