Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis presenting with hypertensive emergency.

J Trop Pediatr

Department of Pediatrics, North Bengal Medical College and Hospital, Sushruta Nagar, Siliguri, Darjeeling - 734 012, West Bengal, India.

Published: April 2014

We report a 12-year-old girl presenting with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) along with hypertensive emergency. Hypertension persisted for few weeks following recovery and subsided with oral clonidine. Although autonomic instability in ADEM has been reported before, hypertensive emergency was not previously documented as presenting feature of ADEM.

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