TY - JOUR
T1 - Cushing's Triad in Pneumococcal Meningitis Due to Brainstem Ischemia
T2 - Early Detection by Diffusion-Weighted MRI
AU - Haarman, Eric G.
AU - Vermeulen, R. Jeroen
AU - van Furth, A. Marceline
AU - Verbeke, Jonathan I. M. L.
AU - Plötz, Frans B.
PY - 2008/4
Y1 - 2008/4
N2 - An infant with pneumococcal meningitis developed signs of raised intracranial pressure during the progression of the disease, including loss of consciousness, hypertension, bradycardia, and respiratory depression. However, both the emergency computed tomography scan findings and intracranial pressure measured by lumbar puncture were normal. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging identified multiple lesions with restricted diffusion suggestive of ischemia in the brainstem, explaining the signs observed in the patient. These lesions could not be identified on T2-weighted images at that time. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
AB - An infant with pneumococcal meningitis developed signs of raised intracranial pressure during the progression of the disease, including loss of consciousness, hypertension, bradycardia, and respiratory depression. However, both the emergency computed tomography scan findings and intracranial pressure measured by lumbar puncture were normal. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging identified multiple lesions with restricted diffusion suggestive of ischemia in the brainstem, explaining the signs observed in the patient. These lesions could not be identified on T2-weighted images at that time. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18358408
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2007.10.015
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2007.10.015
M3 - Article
C2 - 18358408
SN - 0887-8994
VL - 38
SP - 276
EP - 278
JO - Pediatric neurology
JF - Pediatric neurology
IS - 4
ER -