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Encefalopatía reversible posterior en una niña con lupus eritematoso sistémico. Presentación de un caso
Author(s) -
Gustavo Roberto Marín
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
archivos argentinos de pediatría
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.236
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1668-3501
pISSN - 0325-0075
DOI - 10.5546/aap.2015.e271
Subject(s) - medicine , posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome , eclampsia , intravenous immunoglobulins , disease , encephalopathy , systemic lupus erythematosus , antibody , immunology , magnetic resonance imaging , pathology , pregnancy , radiology , biology , genetics
Posterior reversible encephalopathy is a rare disease in children. Clinical manifestations include headache, seizures, visual disturbances and altered consciousness associated with typical magnetic resonance images of the nervous system. The syndrome usually manifests in patients with eclampsia, solid organ transplantation, haematologic, renal and autoimmune diseases among other less common causes and it is often triggered after a hypertensive crisis or use of immunosuppressive drugs. Less common pathogenic factors as blood transfusion, use of immunoglobulins or an underlying infection can be associated. In this case a girl with systemic lupus erythematosus and exposed to multiple etiopathogenic factors developed posterior reversible encephalopathy.

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