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Case reports

Dexmedetomidine in PRES: An appropriate therapeutic decisionFootnote

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Pages 307-309 | Received 06 Mar 2016, Accepted 12 Aug 2016, Published online: 17 May 2019
 

Abstract

PRES, a reversible white matter lesion characterized by cerebral edema, found in 7–20% of the patients with preeclampsia and eclampsia, needs early diagnosis and therapeutic intervention. We report PRES in a young preeclamptic primigravida and the role of dexmedetomidine in controlling her uncontrollable blood pressure in ICU. Dexmedetomidine, has cerebroprotective cardioprotective and renoprotective properties all of which, helped the patient improving clinically.

Notes

Peer review under responsibility of Egyptian Society of Anesthesiologists.