Cerebrovascular Disease in HIV-Infected Pediatric Patients: Neuroimaging Findings
Athos D. Patsalides1,
Lauren V. Wood2,
Gokce K. Atac1,
Eileen Sandifer2,
John A. Butman1 and
Nicholas J. Patronas1
1 Diagnostic Radiology Department, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center,
National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Dr., Bldg. 10, Rm. 1C-660, Bethesda,
MD 20892-1182.
2 HIV & AIDS Malignancy Branch, National Cancer Institute, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1868.

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Fig. 1A. 10-year-old HIV-infected boy with left-sided hemiparesis.
Multiple ischemic infarctions are located in vascular territories harboring
fusiform aneurysms. MR angiogram of proximal intracranial circulation shows
aneurysmal dilatation of proximal segment of right anterior and right middle
cerebral arteries (long arrows). There is also less prominent
dilatation of left posterior cerebral artery (short arrow) and
basilar artery.
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Fig. 1B. 10-year-old HIV-infected boy with left-sided hemiparesis.
Multiple ischemic infarctions are located in vascular territories harboring
fusiform aneurysms. Axial T2-weighted MR image shows two lacunar infarctions
in left thalamus and right putamen (arrows). Two other ischemic
infarctions are identified in right occipital and right frontal lobes.
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Fig. 1C. 10-year-old HIV-infected boy with left-sided hemiparesis.
Multiple ischemic infarctions are located in vascular territories harboring
fusiform aneurysms. Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery MR image obtained in
axial plane shows ischemic infarction involving medial aspect of right frontal
lobe (arrow).
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Fig. 2A. 12-year-old HIV infected girl without focal neurologic
symptoms. MR angiogram of proximal intracranial circulation shows abnormal
dilatation of left anterior cerebral artery (arrow).
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Fig. 2B. 12-year-old HIV infected girl without focal neurologic
symptoms. Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery MR image of brain obtained in
axial plane shows two ischemic infarctions in left putamen and caudate nucleus
(arrows). Both infarcted areas are supplied by lenticulostriate
arteries originating from abnormally dilated anterior cerebral artery.
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