reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome

reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome
a syndrome resulting from leukoencephalopathy with edema in posterior parts of the occipital and parietal lobes, characterized by headaches, confusion, seizures, and visual disturbances; the brain lesions are most often related to hypertension, and sometimes to use of certain immunosuppressive drugs or to some other cause. Called also posterior leukoencephalopathy s., posterior reversible encephalopathy s., and posterior reversible leukoencephalopathy s.

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