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Michael Grelat1, Jean-Baptiste Debaux, Jean-Louis Sautreaux
1Department of Neurosurgery, Bocage Central, University Hospital of Dijon, 14 rue Paul Gaffarel, Dijon 21000, France. michael.grelat@gmail.com.
Introduction:
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is a rare entity. Its pathophysiology is still poorly understood.
Case Presentation:
We report the case of a 69-year-old White European woman who presented complete and proportional right hemiplegia, confusion, deviation of her head and eyes to the right, cortical blindness, and generalized tonic-clonic seizure 12 hours following a depletive lumbar puncture. Emergency cerebral magnetic resonance imaging showed bioccipital and left-side basal ganglia hyperintensities in the fluid attenuated inversion recovery and the diffusion-weighted images suggesting a radiological diagnosis of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.
Conclusions:
The diagnosis is established on clinical and radiological signs. This is the first report of this kind in the literature. We present a case of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome after depletive lumbar puncture and we discuss the pathophysiology.
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