Clinical Features and Location of Intracranial Edema in Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Patients.

This is an observational analytic study on clinical features and location of intracranial edema in case of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES). Place of study was Square Hospitals Ltd. Dhaka, Bangladesh. Study period was 1 year (from January 2010 to January 2011). Number of total cases was 5. Mean age of patients was 21 years. Common clinical features were headache, seizure and visual disturbance. Mean time of developing clinical feature(s) was 4.6 days after NVD or LUCS. Intracranial edema was common in occipital, frontal and parietal lobes.