title: FLAIR vascular hyperintensity preceding stroke in cryptococcal meningitis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Ischemic stroke is a common complication of cryptococcal meningitis. Fluid attenuated inversion recovery vascular hyperintensity (FVH) is a neuroimaging marker of sluggish blood flow usually seen in the setting of acute stroke. FVH have never been described in the setting of meningitis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A 20-year-old man with cryptococcal meningitis and a magnetic resonance imaging demonstrating FVH had subsequent neurological deterioration and was found to have bilateral ischemic stroke.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In conditions with high risk of stroke, such as meningitis, the presence of FVH should alert the clinician to the possibility of impending infarction.
authors.affiliation: Stroke Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. sanossia@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Nerses
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sanossian
authors.forename: Ron A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Shatzmiller
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Djabiras
authors.forename: David S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Liebeskind
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D016919:Meningitis, Cryptococcal / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology*