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A 65-year-old female with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura presenting with acute renal failure and generalised seizures. Her systolic blood pressure was 200 mmHg at presentation. (a) Brain MRI (fluid attenuated inversion recovery sequence) demonstrates vasogenic oedema in the white matter of the occipital lobes. (b) Diffusion-weighted imaging and (c) apparent diffusion coefficient map demonstrate a region of restricted diffusion in the right occipital cortex.
