Intensive Care Management of Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome in Eclampsia and HELLP Syndrome: A Case Series of a District Hospital in Sabah

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a medical condition characterised by a range of neurological symptoms and typical findings in brain imaging studies. In pregnant patients, a common cause of PRES is eclampsia. This case series presents a cohort of pregnant patients diagnosed with PRES and discusses the pertinent issues for their management in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting. A total of four patients were presented to our institution, all of them had status epilepticus as a result of eclampsia and HELLP syndrome. Further investigations revealed radiological features i... Mehr ...