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ea0028p117 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2012

A case of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in a patient with acute intermittent porphyria

Ranjan Nishant , Hosker John

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a cliniconeuroradiological entity characterized by seizures (91.7%), headache (83.3%), visual disturbance (62.5%),encephalophathy (29.2%), and paralysis (8.3%). Co-morbidities included systemic lupus erythematous (29.2%), kidney disease (20.8%), eclampsia(20.8%), renal artery stenosis (12.5%), Takayasu arteritis (4.2%), Sheehan's syndrome(4.2%), and acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) (4.2%). We report a 31-year-old woman w...