title: Heat stress presenting with encephalopathy and MRI findings of diffuse cerebral injury and hemorrhage.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Heat stress results in multiorgan failure and CNS injury. There a few case reports in the literature on the neurological consequences of heat stress.
  
  
  METHODS
  We describe a patient with heat stress presenting with encephalopathy and bilateral cerebral, cerebellar, and thalamic lesions and intraventricular hemorrhage on MRI.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Heat stress should be in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with encephalopathy and elevated serum inflammatory markers especially if the history suggests a preceding episode of hyperthermia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical School-Houston, UT Health, Houston, TX, USA. Waldo.R.Guerrero@uth.tmc.edu
authors.forename: Waldo R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Guerrero
authors.forename: Shaun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Varghese
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Savitz
authors.forename: Tzu Ching
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications*; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D018882:Heat Stress Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male