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A 52-year-old lady with post operative reversible blindness and hemiparesis
1Department of lnternal Medicine, St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa.
Ethiopian Medical Journal
|August 13, 2013
Abstract:
A 52-year-old lady developed cortical blindness followed by left sided hemiparesis after cholecystectomy, both of which resolved remarkably. A diagnosis of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) was made based on characteristic clinical and MRI features.
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