A newly Developed Hyperintensity Within a Posterior Cerebral Artery Susceptibility Vessel Sign in T2*-Weighted Gradient-Echo Imaging : a Case Report and Correlation with Magnetic Resonance Angiography and Black-Blood Imaging
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The susceptibility vessel sign (SVS) on T2*-weighted gradient-echo imaging (T2*-GRE) is useful for detecting intra-arterial clots and monitoring the response to thrombolysis. SVS-GRE was observed in a 52-year-old man with acute occlusion of the posterior cerebral artery (PCA) before and after failed intra-arterial thrombolysis. One-week follow-up T2*-GRE revealed a hyperintensity within the SVS-GRE in the affected PCA. The right PCA remained occluded on time-of-flight (TOF) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), but its P2 segment exhibited luminal patency on contrast-enhanced (CE) MRA. Black-blood MR imaging using a T1-weighted turbo-spin echo sequence revealed narrowing of the arterial lumen and thickening of the wall due to an atherosclerotic plaque. The observations from TOF-MRA, CE-MRA, and black-blood MR imaging suggest that a newly developed hyperintensity within the SVS-GRE seems to be associated with slow flow through a severe atherosclerotic stenosis or near-occlusion.
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The susceptibility vessel sign (SVS) on T2*-weighted gradient-echo imaging (T2*-GRE) is useful for detecting intra-arterial clots and monitoring the response to thrombolysis. SVS-GRE was observed in a 52-year-old man with acute occlusion of the posterior cerebral artery (PCA) before and after failed intra-arterial thrombolysis. One-week follow-up T2*-GRE revealed a hyperintensity within the SVS-GRE in the affected PCA. The right PCA remained occluded on time-of-flight (TOF) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), but its P2 segment exhibited luminal patency on contrast-enhanced (CE) MRA. Black-blood MR imaging using a T1-weighted turbo-spin echo sequence revealed narrowing of the arterial lumen and thickening of the wall due to an atherosclerotic plaque. The observations from TOF-MRA, CE-MRA, and black-blood MR imaging suggest that a newly developed hyperintensity within the SVS-GRE seems to be associated with slow flow through a severe atherosclerotic stenosis or near-occlusion.
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