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. 2009 Aug;30(7):1371–1379. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A1588

Table 1:

Hemorrhage in PRES: relationship to clinical associations and blood pressure at toxicity

Toxicity Association Total No. Pts with PRES Patients with PRES and Hemorrhage
No. Hemorrhage (%) Blood Pressure in Pts with PRES Hemorrhage
Normotensive (MAP ≤ 105) Mild HTN (MAP, 106–115) Severe HTN (MAP ≥ 116)
Immunosuppression 50 11 (22.0) 3 1 7
    Solid-organ transplant 34 4 (11.8) 2 1 1
    Allo-BMT 15 7 (46.7) 1 0 6
    Other* 1 0 (0.0)
Infection/sepsis/shock 52 6 (11.5) 4 1 1
Autoimmune 12 2 (16.7) 0 0 2
Chemotherapy 10 1 (10.0) 0 1 0
Eclampsia 18 1 (5.6) 0 0 1
Unknown 9 2 (22.2) 0 0 2
Total 151 23 (15.2) 7 3 13

Note:—Pts indicates patients; CsA, cyclosporine; HTN, hypertension; –, none; PRES, posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome; MAP, mean arterial pressure; FK-506, tacrolimus; Allo-BMT, allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.

*

A single patient with psoriasis on cyclosporine.

Patients with eclampsia and delayed eclampsia.

Transplant, on cyclosporine, or tacrolimus (FK-506).