PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kimura, Kazumi
AU  - Minematsu, Kazuo
AU  - Wada, Kuniyasu
AU  - Yasaka, Masahiro
AU  - Tagaya, Masafumi
AU  - Kuribayashi, Sachio
AU  - Yamaguchi, Takenori
TI  - Transcranial Doppler of a Paradoxical Brain Embolism Associated with a Pulmonary Arteriovenous Fistula
DP  - 1999 Nov 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 1881--1884
VI  - 20
IP  - 10
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/20/10/1881.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/20/10/1881.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1999 Nov 01; 20
AB  - Summary: We herein report the case of a patient who had paradoxical brain embolism owing to a pulmonary arteriovenous fistula (PAVF) who was diagnosed as having a right-to-left shunt by transcranial Doppler (TCD) with saline contrast medium. TCD with saline contrast medium failed to detect any high-intensity transient signals immediately after catheter embolization of the PAVF. Thus, TCD with saline contrast medium was useful for identifying the presence of a right-to-left shunt and for confirming that the shunt had been obliterated after endovascular treatment.