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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sara Zand, M.D.[2]
Brian MRI may be helpful in the diagnosis of disease name. Findings on MRI suggestive of/diagnostic of [disease name] include [finding 1], [finding 2], and [finding 3].
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a constellation of a range of clinical neurologic signs and symptoms such as vision loss or deficit, seizure, headache, and altered sensorium or confusion (48). Although suspicion for PRES is increased in the setting of these clinical features, the diagnosis of PRES is made by the presence of vasogenic edema and hyperintensities in the posterior aspects of the brain on magnetic resonance imaging. Women are particularly at risk of PRES in the settings of eclampsia and preeclampsia with headache, altered consciousness, or visual abnormalities (49). Another condition that may be confused with eclampsia or preeclampsia is reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (50). Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome is characterized by reversible multifocal narrowing of the arteries of the brain with signs and symptoms that typically include thunderclap headache and, less commonly, focal neurologic deficits related to brain edema, stroke, or seizure. Treatment of women with PRES and reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome may include medical control of hypertension, antiepileptic medication and long-term