Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Presenting as Balint Syndrome

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Title Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Presenting as Balint Syndrome
Creator Sunil Kumar, FRCS, MS; Archana Abhayambika, MS; Arun N. E. Sundaram, MD, FRCPC; James A. Sharpe, MD, FRCPC (1941-2013)
Affiliation Division of Neurology and Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Abstract Balint syndrome is a disorder of inaccurate visually guided saccades, optic ataxia, and simultanagnosia that typically results from bilateral parieto-occipital lesions. Visual perception disturbances in the posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) include hemianopia, visual neglect, and cerebral blindness, but Balint syndrome had not been recognized. We report Balint syndrome associated with PRES in a 37-year-old woman with acute hypertension and systemic lupus erythematosus. Balint syndrome can be an initial presentation of PRES.
Subject Adult; Brain Infarction / diagnosis; Brain Infarction / pathology; Brain Infarction / physiopathology; Female; Humans; Hypertension / diagnosis; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / diagnosis; Occipital Lobe / physiopathology; Ocular Motility Disorders / diagnosis; Ocular Motility Disorders / pathology; Ocular Motility Disorders / physiopathology; Parietal Lobe / physiopathology; Saccades / physiology; Syndrome; Vision Disorders / diagnosis; Vision Disorders / pathology; Vision Disorders / physiopathology
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Date 2011-09
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
ARK ark:/87278/s6w98g83
Setname ehsl_novel_jno
ID 227178
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6w98g83
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