PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - C.G. Besirli
AU  - P. Sudhakar
AU  - J. Wesolowski
AU  - J.D. Trobe
TI  - Serous Retinal Detachment in Hypertensive Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A2435
DP  - 2011 Dec 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - E203--E205
VI  - 32
IP  - 11
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/32/11/E203.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/32/11/E203.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2011 Dec 01; 32
AB  - SUMMARY: In accelerated hypertension, vasogenic brain edema associated with PRES may represent either autoregulatory breakthrough leading to vasodilation or excessive autoregulation leading to vasoconstriction. We describe 2 patients with PRES in accelerated hypertension who had serous retinal detachments, a vasoconstrictive phenomenon. The concurrence of serous retinal detachment and PRES offers intriguing support for the idea that vasoconstriction rather than vasodilation is the mechanism of vasogenic edema in PRES. CCAcatheter cerebral angiographyDWIdiffusion-weighted imagingFLAIRfluid-attenuated inversion recoveryMRAMR angiographyPCAposterior cerebral arteryPRESposterior reversible encephalopathy syndromeRPEretinal pigment epithelium