Air bubbles in the brain: retrograde venous gas embolism in the cavernous sinus

We present a rare case of cavernous sinuses air embolism occurring after peripheral venous catheterization. This 44-year-old lady followed for idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura was referred to our service for vomiting and critical headaches after blood transfusion for her thrombocytopenia. Having...

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Autores principales: Allioui, S., Zaimi, S., Sninate, S., Abdellaoui, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Neuroradiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7283944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32547668
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.04.052
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description We present a rare case of cavernous sinuses air embolism occurring after peripheral venous catheterization. This 44-year-old lady followed for idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura was referred to our service for vomiting and critical headaches after blood transfusion for her thrombocytopenia. Having been submitted to a brain computed tomography, this later showed air bubbles in bilateral cavernous sinuses related to cavernous sinuses gas embolism. This condition, which remains purely unusual could be fatal, where the ultimate importance that the radiologists and clinicians to be fully aware of.
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spelling pubmed-72839442020-06-15 Air bubbles in the brain: retrograde venous gas embolism in the cavernous sinus Allioui, S. Zaimi, S. Sninate, S. Abdellaoui, M. Radiol Case Rep Neuroradiology We present a rare case of cavernous sinuses air embolism occurring after peripheral venous catheterization. This 44-year-old lady followed for idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura was referred to our service for vomiting and critical headaches after blood transfusion for her thrombocytopenia. Having been submitted to a brain computed tomography, this later showed air bubbles in bilateral cavernous sinuses related to cavernous sinuses gas embolism. This condition, which remains purely unusual could be fatal, where the ultimate importance that the radiologists and clinicians to be fully aware of. Elsevier 2020-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7283944/ /pubmed/32547668 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.04.052 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Allioui, S.
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Air bubbles in the brain: retrograde venous gas embolism in the cavernous sinus
title Air bubbles in the brain: retrograde venous gas embolism in the cavernous sinus
title_full Air bubbles in the brain: retrograde venous gas embolism in the cavernous sinus
title_fullStr Air bubbles in the brain: retrograde venous gas embolism in the cavernous sinus
title_full_unstemmed Air bubbles in the brain: retrograde venous gas embolism in the cavernous sinus
title_short Air bubbles in the brain: retrograde venous gas embolism in the cavernous sinus
title_sort air bubbles in the brain: retrograde venous gas embolism in the cavernous sinus
topic Neuroradiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7283944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32547668
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.04.052
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