ArticleScientific reports2014
Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography in brain death.
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- The role of imaging in anoxic brain injury and brain death: a review of modalities with an Irish and international perspective.Irish journal of medical science · 2017Article
- Portable Wideband Microwave Imaging System for Intracranial Hemorrhage Detection Using Improved Back-projection Algorithm with Model of Effective Head Permittivity.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- [Angiographic procedures for determination of cessation of cerebral circulation].Der Nervenarzt · 2016Article
- The role of neuroimaging in the determination of brain death.Radiologia brasileiraReview
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Abstract
Confirmatory tests for the diagnosis of brain death in addition to clinical findings may shorten observation time required in some countries and may add certainty to the diagnosis under specific circumstances. The practicability of Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography to confirm cerebral circulatory arrest was assessed after the diagnosis of brain death in 15 patients using a 1.5 Tesla MRI scanner. In all 15 patients extracranial blood flow distal to the external carotid arteries was undisturbed. In 14 patients no contrast medium was noted within intracerebral vessels above the proximal level of the intracerebral arteries. In one patient more distal segments of the anterior and middle cerebral arteries (A3 and M3) were filled with contrast medium. Gadolinium-enhanced MRA may be considered conclusive evidence of cerebral circulatory arrest, when major intracranial vessels fail to fill with contrast medium while extracranial vessels show normal blood flow.
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