The role of seizures in reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy.
We report two hypertensive females, one suffering from chronic renal failure and on regular dialysis, the other with eclampsia. Both developed new onset seizures. The patients' MRI of brain showed signals consistent with the reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome (RPLES), but with the signals seen only in the hemisphere where the seizures predominated. The anatomic correlation of the clinical and imaging findings supports the notion that seizures have a major role in the genesis and evolution of RPLES.
Obeid
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Department of Medicine, King Khalid National Guard Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. obeidth@ngha.med.sa
Shami
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Karsou
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D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010672:Phenytoin / Q000627:therapeutic use
D000927:Anticonvulsants; D010672:Phenytoin