Case Report: Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis in Pregnancy Mimicking Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome.

ABSTRACT: In posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reveals bilateral occipital, parietal, and subcortical white matter hyperintensities on T2/fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) sequences. After treatment, imaging abnormalities are usually reversible. Eclampsia is the most frequent cause of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in pregnancy. We report a 24-year-old woman, who presented to our clinic 4 weeks after normal vaginal delivery with bilateral vision loss. Loss of vision was first noticed in the 20th week of pregnancy. Even after delivery, her vision did not improve. In the postpartum period, she started having periodic myoclonic jerks. Electroencephalography demonstrated periodic generalized discharges. A brain MRI performed in t

SUBMITTER: Sharma PK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7056428 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature