Kaarthigeyan K, Vijayalakshmi A M
Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, India.
Indian J Nephrol. 2012 Jan;22(1):42-4. doi: 10.4103/0971-4065.86408.
The association between hypertensive encephalopathy and cortical blindness in children with acute glomerulonephritis is extremely rare. We report the case of a 9-year old girl who presented with headache, seizures, altered sensorium, hematuria, and transient cortical blindness as a complication of hypertensive encephalopathy which showed complete reversal following normalization of blood pressure and an underlying post-infectious acute glomerulonephritis was revealed.
高血压脑病与急性肾小球肾炎患儿皮质盲之间的关联极为罕见。我们报告了一例9岁女孩的病例,该女孩因高血压脑病并发症出现头痛、癫痫发作、意识改变、血尿和短暂性皮质盲,血压恢复正常后症状完全缓解,并发现潜在的感染后急性肾小球肾炎。