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Volume 24, Number 2—February 2018
Research Letter

Dengue-Associated Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome, Vietnam

Nguyen Thi Hoang Mai, Nguyen Hoan Phu, Ho Dang Trung Nghia, Tran My Phuong, Du Trong Duc, Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Bridget Wills, Choie Cheio Tchoyoson Lim, Guy Thwaites, Cameron Paul Simmons, and Sophie YacoubComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (N.T.H. Mai, N.H. Phu, H.D.T. Nghia, T.M. Phuong, D.T. Duc, N.V.V. Chau); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Ho Chi Minh City (N.T.H. Mai, N.V.V. Chau, B. Wills, G. Thwaites, C.P. Simmons, S. Yacoub); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (B. Wills, G. Thwaites); National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore (C.C.T. Lim); University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (C.P. Simmons); Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, London, UK (S. Yacoub)

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Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery magnetic resonance images of the brain of a 55-year-old woman with dengue-associated posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. A) Bilateral abnormal nonenhancing, confluent high signal in the periventricular and deep cerebral white matter of the high frontal parietal area and cerebellar hemispheres, thalamus, and pons. B) Almost complete resolution of abnormal findings 7 weeks later, after treatment.

Figure. Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery magnetic resonance images of the brain of a 55-year-old woman with dengue-associated posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. A) Bilateral abnormal nonenhancing, confluent high signal in the periventricular and deep cerebral white matter of the high frontal parietal area and cerebellar hemispheres, thalamus, and pons. B) Almost complete resolution of abnormal findings 7 weeks later, after treatment.

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