TY - JOUR T1 - ImPRESsive hypertensive encephalopathy JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 1083 LP - 1084 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2011-200136 VL - 28 IS - 12 AU - Farid Salih AU - Christoph Leithner AU - Georg Bohner AU - Christoph J Ploner Y1 - 2011/12/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/28/12/1083.abstract N2 - A 67-year-old woman was admitted after having her first-ever epileptic seizure. Three days before, she started complaining of vertigo, gait disturbances and tension-type headache. Examination revealed obtundation, dysarthria and ataxia. Blood pressure was 300/123 mm Hg. Within 4 h, her consciousness deteriorated to deep coma. Brain MRI showed extensive vasogenic oedema with lesions in … ER -