Hypertensive encephalopathy and reversible magnetic resonance imaging changes in a renal transplant patient

Pediatr Nephrol. 1996 Dec;10(6):769-71.

Abstract

An 18-year-old renal transplant patient presented with sudden onset of seizures almost 2 years after she received the graft. Diagnostic work-up was unrevealing except for magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities of the brain that resolved spontaneously 4 weeks later. In this brief report, we discuss the etiology of the seizures and neurological abnormalities in renal transplant patients in light of the findings of our patient.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Brain Diseases / diagnosis
  • Brain Diseases / etiology*
  • Brain Diseases / pathology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Erythropoietin / adverse effects
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Renal / complications*
  • Kidney Function Tests
  • Kidney Transplantation / physiology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Seizures / etiology

Substances

  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Erythropoietin