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Jasmeet Singh1, Daisuke Kobayashi, Michael Y Chen
1Department of Radiology Pediatrics, Wake Forest Baptist Health School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Abstract:
Ductus arteriosus aneurysm (DAA) can be associated with neonatal thromboembolism. We report a neonate with systemic thromboembolism causing acute cerebral infarction with DAA, arterial, and venous thrombosis, discovered on CT angiography. The role of DAA was suspected as a potential etiology of systemic thromboembolism in this case. CT angiography with three-dimensional reconstruction was valuable delineating the adjunctive vascular structures. Screening for presence of DAA may be considered in the neonatal thromboembolism.
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