Serial transcranial color-coded sonography in postpartum cerebral angiopathy.
Reversible vasospasm in the bilateral middle cerebral artery in a patient with postpartum cerebral angiopathy was evaluated with serial transcranial color-coded sonography (TCCS). The authors propose TCCS as the method of choice for assessing the time course of vascular changes in postpartum cerebral angiopathy because it allows for precise placement of the sample volume and adjustment of the incident angle.
Ihara
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Department of Neurology, Nishi-Kobe Medical Center, Kobe, Japan.
Yanagihara
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Nishimura
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Y
D000328:Adult; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D020768:Middle Cerebral Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D020769:Posterior Cerebral Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011644:Puerperal Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color; D017585:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial; D020301:Vasospasm, Intracranial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*