Rapidly reversible visual loss in posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: An ophthalmologist's enigma

Abstract

Posterior reversible encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) may present with a sudden onset reversible visual loss under special visual conditions. Such patients' may initially be misdiagnosed as Malingering. Ophthalmologists may be the first physicians to be confronted by such patients. Hence, a knowledge of this condition is vital to diagnosis and management of such conditions.

Keywords

• Encephalopathy
• posterior
• reversible
• visual loss