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Case Report
Volume 6, Number 4, August 2015, pages 426-428
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome in a Bone Marrow Transplant Patient: A Complication of Immunosuppressive Drugs?
Table
| Hypertensive encephalopathy |
| Acute or chronic renal disease |
| Toxemia of pregnancy |
| Post-transplantation |
| Allo-BMT |
| Solid organ transplantation |
| Infection/sepsis/shock |
| Multiorgan dysfunction syndrome |
| Autoimmune disease |
| Systemic lupus erythematosus |
| Wegener’s granulomatosis |
| Polyarteritis nodosa |
| Cryoglobulinemia |
| Immunosuppressive, immunomodulatory, and chemotherapeutic drugs |
| Bevacizumab |
| Cisplatin and other platinum based agents |
| Cyclosporin |
| Tacrolimus |
| Cytarabine |
| Gemcitabine |
| Interferon-alpha |
| Intravenous immunoglobulin |
| Ipilimumab |
| Methotrexate |
| Rituximab |
| Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (pazopanib), sorafenib, sunitinib |
| Vincristine |
| Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura |
| Hemolytic and uremic syndrome |
| Miscellaneous reported associations |
| Hypomagnesemia [8, 9] |
| Hypercalcemia [10, 11] |
| Hypocholesterolemia [12] |
| Ephedra overdose |
| Triple-H Therapy |
| Tumor lysis syndrome |
| Dialysis/erythropoietin syndrome |
| Porphyria |
| Contrast media exposure (cerebral, coronary angiography) |