Top

Published in:

01-01-2010 | Short Report

Reversible posterior encephalopathy syndrome associated with micronodular adrenocortical disease and Cushing syndrome

Authors: Maya Lodish, Nicholas J. Patronas, Constantine A. Stratakis

Published in: European Journal of Pediatrics | Issue 1/2010

Abstract

We report a 6-year-old girl with ACTH-independent Cushing syndrome secondary to bilateral adrenal hyperplasia; she presented with hypertension and seizures, and magnetic resonance imaging shows changes consistent with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.

Antunes NL, Small TN, George D et al (1999) Posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome may not be reversible. Pediatr Neurol 20:241–243CrossRefPubMed

Hinchey J, Chaves C, Appignani B et al (1996) A reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome. N Engl J Med 334:494–500CrossRefPubMed

Kwon S, Koo J, Lee S (2001) Clinical spectrum of reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome. Pediatr Neurol 24:361–364CrossRefPubMed

Lee VH, Wijdicks EF, Manno EM, Rabinstein AA (2008) Clinical spectrum of reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome. Arch Neurol 65:205–210CrossRefPubMed

Lin KL, Hsu WC, Wang HS, Lui TN (2006) Hypertension-induced cerebellar encephalopathy and hydrocephalus in a male. Pediatr Neurol 34:72–75CrossRefPubMed

Lodish MB, Sinaii N, Patronas N, Batista DL, Keil M, Samuel J, Moran J, Verma S, Popovic J, Stratakis CA (2009) Blood pressure in pediatric patients with Cushing syndrome. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (in press)

Magiakou MA, Mastorakos G, Zachman K, Chrousos GP (1997) Blood pressure in children and adolescents with Cushing's syndrome before and after surgical care. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 82:1734–1738CrossRefPubMed

Nguyen JH, Lodish MB, Patronas NJ et al (2009) Extensive ischemic infarctions in a prepubertal child with hypertension and Cushing disease. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 94:1–2CrossRefPubMed

Servillo G, Bifulco F, De Robertis E et al (2007) Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in intensive care medicine. Intensive Care Med 33:230–236CrossRefPubMed

10.

Yokobori S, Yokota H, Yamamoto Y (2006) Pediatric posterior reversible leukoencephalopathy syndrome and NSAID-induced acute tubular interstitial nephritis. Pediatr Neurol 34:245–247CrossRefPubMed

Title: Reversible posterior encephalopathy syndrome associated with micronodular adrenocortical disease and Cushing syndrome
Authors: Maya Lodish
Nicholas J. Patronas
Constantine A. Stratakis
Publication date: 01-01-2010
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: European Journal of Pediatrics / Issue 1/2010
Print ISSN: 0340-6199
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1076
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-009-0990-4

At a glance: The ONWARDS insulin icodec trials

Springer Medicine

Reversible posterior encephalopathy syndrome associated with micronodular adrenocortical disease and Cushing syndrome

Abstract

At a glance: The ONWARDS insulin icodec trials

Springer Medicine

Abstract

Please log in to get access to this content

Other articles of this Issue 1/2010

Micturitional headache in a young girl

Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in a baby with hyper-IgE syndrome

Life-threatening infection due to community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: case report and review

Age at menarche in a Korean population: secular trends and influencing factors

Prognostic values of specific respiratory sounds for asthma in adolescents

Campylobacter jejuni infection associated with myopericarditis in adolescents: report of two cases