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Axial FLAIR MRI demonstrating bilateral occipital lobe hyperintensity, suggestive of blood or edema. Because the images from other brain MRI sequences were normal, the patient was diagnosed with PRES.
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Brain MRI showed occipital lesions with T2 hyperintensity and pathological signal in FLAIR sequence in subcortical regions of both occipital lobes, suggestive of PRES (Fig. 1).
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Axial FLAIR MRI demonstrating improvement in the hyperintense lesions in both occipital lobes 48 h after symptom onset.
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Brain MRI findings were also improved within 48 h (Fig. 2).