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Okay, vascular lesions.

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So just like in adults, right?

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You can have cortical and medullary vein thrombosis,

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but, uh, neonates are more, uh, predisposed

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to prothrombotic conditions from the birth, from sepsis,

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from hypoxia, ischemia, all of these things.

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So you really wanna make sure

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that this is a high level suspicion.

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'cause uh, I think, I think this case was called trauma, um,

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by an adult radiologist, right?

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And it's like, yes, there is diffuse hypoxia

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and there's a lot of, uh, peripheral,

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but like, I mean, there aren't any subdurals, right?

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And, and it's like, what is this?

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So basically there was diffuse venous sinus thrombosis,

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and then you had secondary arterial.

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Because if you get the impaired venous outflow over

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time, the pressures build up.

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And then you get little petee hemorrhages, right?

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The capillary rupture. And then the pressures get so high

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for venous outflow that you start to get secondary arterial.

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So there's no, you know, arter large artery distribution

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because the entire brain is in farting, right?

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From a longstanding venous thrombosis.

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So very important, uh, to remember this diagnosis.

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And the medullary veins can also be congested and immature.

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And so you can see again, that T one shortening kinda linear

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radiation engorgement thrombosis.

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And so this can also give you kind

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of like a white matter injury like pattern.

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But the key is that you actually have a bunch of, uh,

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congested met veins through that whole area,

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and very linear vein

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and Galen malformations, you know, this, uh,

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essentially AV shunting, high flow shunting, right?

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Uh, through the median presence, pha like vein,

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they can have this turbulent yin yang flow.

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Lots of, you know, choroidal, uh, or mural feeders

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and ischemia of the brain parenchyma,

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and this is a good one to know the collagen four A

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mutations, uh, they can cause, um, neonatal

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or even antenatal, uh, hemorrhagic porn cephalic,

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essentially it's, uh, the collagen four in the vessel walls

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can give you hemorrhagic strokes throughout life, right?

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So if you see like a fetal MRI

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or a neonate with a bunch of like hemorrhagic, you know,

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porn cephalic cysts, right?

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You really have to invoke this diagnosis.

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Faculty

Mai-Lan Ho, MD

Professor and Vice Chair of Radiology

University of Missouri

Tags

Vascular

Ultrasound

Perfusion

Pediatrics

Neuroradiology

Neonatal

MRP

MRI

Iatrogenic

Congenital

CT

Brain

Acquired/Developmental