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Flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery (fair) imaging for retrograde cortical venous drainage related to intracranial dural arteriovenous fistula

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Abstract

Introduction

To evaluate the hypothesis that flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery (FAIR) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging can detect retrograde cortical venous drainage (RCVD) in patients with intracranial dural arteriovenous fistula (DAVF).

Methods

Seven patients with angiographically confirmed DAVF with RCVD and two DAVF patients without RCVD underwent examinations with conventional MR imaging and FAIR, five of these seven patients with RCVD also underwent examination with dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) MR imaging. The ability of FAIR to depict prominent cerebral veins was evaluated, and FAIR was compared with the relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) maps created with DSC.

Results

In all DAVF patients with RCVD, FAIR clearly showed prominent veins on the surface of the brain in affected hemisphere, and FAIR corresponded well with the areas of increased rCBV. In all DAVF patients without RCVD, FAIR showed no prominent veins.

Conclusion

FAIR can detect RCVD in patients with DAVF.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Toyama University, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan

    Kyo Noguchi, Yuichi Kamisaki, Keisuke Kameda, Gakuto Tomizawa, Hideto Kawabe & Hikaru Seto

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Toyama University, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan

    Naoya Kuwayama & Michiya Kubo

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Noguchi, K., Kuwayama, N., Kubo, M. et al. Flow-sensitive alternating inversion recovery (fair) imaging for retrograde cortical venous drainage related to intracranial dural arteriovenous fistula. Neuroradiology 53, 153–158 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-010-0711-8

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