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Delayed posthypoxic leukoencephalopathy following alcohol and psychotropic drug overdose: a case report

Author(s) -

Ueno Kanji,

Takahashi Tetsuya,

Higashima Masato,

Okazaki Ryoko,

Takano Seiichiro,

Wada Yuji

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

clinical case reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21

H-Index - 9

ISSN - 2050-0904

DOI - 10.1002/ccr3.1544

Subject(s) - medicine , leukoencephalopathy , biomarker , magnetic resonance imaging , drug , progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy , pediatrics , psychiatry , radiology , multiple sclerosis , biochemistry , chemistry

Key Clinical Message Delayed posthypoxic leukoencephalopathy (DPHL), a demyelinating syndrome, can easily be misdiagnosed as a psychiatric condition. Our case study shows that magnetic resonance imaging is highly useful for an early diagnosis of DPHL and that vascular endothelial growth factor might be a supplementary biomarker for the early detection of DPHL.

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