A previously healthy 16-month-old Korean girl with symptoms of fever, vomiting, and generalized tonic seizure was diagnosed to have Group D non-typhoid Salmonella meningitis. The patient was treated with ceftriaxone (100 mg/kg/day) and amikin (22.5 mg/kg/day) initially and ciprofloxacin (30 mg/kg/day) was added later because of clinical deterioration and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Brain CT performed on the second day showed a well-demarcated low density lesion in the right lentiform nucleus and both caudate nuclei, without evidence of increased intracranial pressure. MRI performed on the 11th day confirmed CT scan findings as well as right subdural fluid collection, brain atrophy, and ventriculomegaly. She underwent subdural drainage and later ventriculo-peritoneal shunt operation. Despite receiving intensive treatment, she still has severe neurologic sequelae. Our case shows that infarctions of basal ganglia and thalami are not specific for tuberculous meningitis and that meningitis complicated by infarction is indicative of grave prognosis.
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The brain MR images of 23 patients with angiographically proved moyamoya disease were reviewed to evaluate the capability of MR to demonstrate vascular and parenchymal abnormalities. All the MR images were obtained on a 2.0 T superconducting system and included T1-weighted sagittal and T2-weighted axial images without implementation of flow compensation (FC). The vascular abnormalities demonstrated on MR images were narrowing of the cavernous internal carotid artery (ICA) (73%), narrowing or occlusion of the supraclinoid ICA (87%) and proximal middle cerebral artery (MCA) (91%), and multiple collateral vessels in the basal ganglia and/or thalamus (96%). The parenchymal abnormalities included ischemic infarctions (74%), predominantly located in watershed areas, hemorrhagic infarctions (26%), intracerebral hematomas (13%), and intraventricular hemorrhage (13%). In conclusion, MR imaging was a useful diagnostic modality for detecting both vascular and parenchymal abnormalities associated with moyamoya disease. This may obviate the need for invasive angiography as far as the diagnosis is wanted at the non-quantitative level.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Basal Ganglia/pathology/radiography ; Carotid Artery, Internal/pathology/radiography ; Cerebral Angiography ; Child ; Female ; Hematoma/complications/diagnosis/pathology ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Male ; Moyamoya Disease/complications/*diagnosis/pathology ; Myocardial Infarction/complications/diagnosis/pathology