Diagnosis of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: does DWI help?

摘要

In Madhu Sharma and colleagues' Personal View about the effects of hypertension on the paediatric brain, some statements regarding posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) might be misleading.The underlying pathophysiological mechanism in patients with PRES could be vasogenic oedema2 The disease arises primarily from the disruption of the blood-brain barrier in paediatric patients with high blood pressure who have impaired cardiovascular autoregulation.