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Analysis of Cerebral Vasospasm in a Murine Model of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage with High Frequency Transcranial Duplex Ultrasound
Published on: June 3, 2021
Acute subdural effusion in vasculitis
Seetharam Raghavendra1, Vidya Madavana Venugopal Kamath, C Sarada
1Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology,Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
Abstract:
We report a 29-year-old man with a unique presentation of vasculitis as acute unilateral subdural effusion and meningoencephalitis. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a brainstem lesion that spread to the thalamus over time. There were no systemic features of vasculitis other than a positive pathergy test. Histopathological examination from the pathergy site showed neutrophilic infiltrate and leucocytoclastic vasculitis. The condition was steroid responsive and he remained in remission at two years' follow-up. The anatomy of the brainstem lesion, absence of other inflammatory and infective conditions on evaluation suggests a vasculitic pathology either as primary central nervous system angiitis or as neurological presentation of systemic vasculitis like Behetaet's disease although the international diagnostic criteria for Behetaet's were not fulfilled.
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