PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kuharik, M A
AU  - Edwards, M K
TI  - Cerebral venous distention associated with cardiac failure in infants.
DP  - 1987 Jul 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 657--659
VI  - 8
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/8/4/657.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/8/4/657.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1987 Jul 01; 8
AB  - Three infants with congestive cardiac failure demonstrated dilated and hyperdense intracranial veins and sinuses on noncontrast cranial CT. Intracranial venous thrombosis and arteriovenous malformation were excluded in two infants by autopsy and in one infant by MR imaging. We believe the CT findings were secondary to an elevated central venous pressure caused by the cardiac failure. This CT pattern suggests venous congestive failure, and it should alert the clinician and radiologist to the risk of subsequent sinus thrombosis.