Dr. Krishna K Nair

A Case of Transient Cortical Blindness in Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome in the Late Postpartum Period

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a reversible neurological entity characterized by seizure, headaches, visual symptoms, impaired consciousness and other focal neurological findings. It is caused by a wide variety of causes ultimately leading to vasogenic cerebral oedema of occipital and parietal lobes of the brain. The pathophysiology is failure of cerebral a utoregulationand endothelial dysfunction