An unsual finding of brain magnetic resonance imaging in a hypertensive patient
Brain edema in patients with hypertensive encephalopathy frequently affects the parietooccipital white matter. Hypertensive encephalopathy is thus included as a differential diagnosis in reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome. Diffuse white matter involvement rarely occurs. We report a 41...
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| author | Ngow, Harris Abdullah Wan Khairina, Wan Mohd Nowalid Hamidon, Bin Basri |
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| description | Brain edema in patients with hypertensive encephalopathy frequently affects the parietooccipital white matter. Hypertensive encephalopathy is thus included as a differential diagnosis in reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome. Diffuse white matter involvement rarely occurs. We report a 41-year old woman with hypertensive encephalopathy with diffuse and non-enhancing white matter hyper-intensities throughout the whole brain on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These hyperintensities spared the grey matter on T2-weighted and FLAIR sequence. These unusual finding on brain MRI was attributed to severe vasogenic cerebral edema resulting from accelerated hypertension. |
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| spelling | iium-51972011-10-28T07:38:49Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/5197/ An unsual finding of brain magnetic resonance imaging in a hypertensive patient Ngow, Harris Abdullah Wan Khairina, Wan Mohd Nowalid Hamidon, Bin Basri RC Internal medicine Brain edema in patients with hypertensive encephalopathy frequently affects the parietooccipital white matter. Hypertensive encephalopathy is thus included as a differential diagnosis in reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome. Diffuse white matter involvement rarely occurs. We report a 41-year old woman with hypertensive encephalopathy with diffuse and non-enhancing white matter hyper-intensities throughout the whole brain on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These hyperintensities spared the grey matter on T2-weighted and FLAIR sequence. These unusual finding on brain MRI was attributed to severe vasogenic cerebral edema resulting from accelerated hypertension. Page Press 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/5197/2/Unusual_MRI_in_Hypertension.pdf Ngow, Harris Abdullah and Wan Khairina, Wan Mohd Nowalid and Hamidon, Bin Basri (2009) An unsual finding of brain magnetic resonance imaging in a hypertensive patient. Neurology international, 1 (e3). pp. 7-9. ISSN 2035-8385 http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/ni DOI: 10.4081/ni.2009.e3 |
| spellingShingle | RC Internal medicine Ngow, Harris Abdullah Wan Khairina, Wan Mohd Nowalid Hamidon, Bin Basri An unsual finding of brain magnetic resonance imaging in a hypertensive patient |
| title | An unsual finding of brain magnetic resonance imaging in a hypertensive patient |
| title_full | An unsual finding of brain magnetic resonance imaging in a hypertensive patient |
| title_fullStr | An unsual finding of brain magnetic resonance imaging in a hypertensive patient |
| title_full_unstemmed | An unsual finding of brain magnetic resonance imaging in a hypertensive patient |
| title_short | An unsual finding of brain magnetic resonance imaging in a hypertensive patient |
| title_sort | unsual finding of brain magnetic resonance imaging in a hypertensive patient |
| topic | RC Internal medicine |
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