[B-mode sonography visualizing microemboli flow in the main cerebral arteries].

S Si-Mohamed1, I Aïchoun2, I Schuster3

  • 1Service d'exploration et médecine vasculaire, centre hospitalier universitaire de Nîmes, place du Professeur-Robert-Debré, 30029 Nîmes, France.

Summary

Gaseous microemboli from prosthetic aortic valve cavitation were visualized in cerebral arteries using transcranial Doppler and B-mode sonography. This marks the first report of microemboli flow visualized in B-mode imaging.