M. Arasu, Srinivasan Swaminathan, Balaji Kannamani, L. Elakkumanan
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Abstract
Postoperative vision loss (POVL) is devastating not only for the patient but also for the anesthesiologist. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is an infrequent and treatable cause of POVL, which is reported predominantly in rapid hemodynamic perturbations, endothelial dysfunction, and massive volume resuscitation. 1,2 To our knowledge, there are no reported cases of PRES following acute hypertension for a brief duration of 3 minutes and massive transfusion. A