Multiple cerebral gaseous emboli in an infant with fulminant necrotising enterocolitis.
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DESCRIPTION An ex-preterm infant collapsed acutelywith abdominal distension, bradycardia and desaturation. Urgent echocardiogram to exclude pericardial tamponade revealed multiple, highly echogenic, foci in all four, but particularly the rightsided, cardiac chambers (video 1). Cranial ultrasound revealed multiple echogenic foci throughout the cerebral arterial vasculature, following paths of the anterior cerebral and pericallosal arteries (video 2).
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عنوان ژورنال:
- BMJ case reports
دوره 2010 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010