Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES).

ABSTRACT:

Audience

Emergency medicine residents of all levels.

Introduction

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinically significant cause of seizures, headache, neurologic deficit, and hypertensive emergency that is not uncommon in the emergency department. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome was initially described as a clinical syndrome in 1996.1 It is an important cause of hypertensive emergency that is not often covered in depth in the emergency medicine curriculum since the true incidence and disease process continues to be researched.Populations who are at most risk for PRES include those with chronic hypertension, chronic renal disease, autoimmune disease, and immune suppression.2 Patients with PRES will often present with varied forms of enceph

SUBMITTER: Ciozda W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10332763 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature