Hemolytic uremic syndrome: MR findings of CNS complications

Pediatr Radiol. 1994;24(8):585-6. doi: 10.1007/BF02012739.

Abstract

MR findings of a patient with hemolytic uremic syndrome involving the CNS are described. Abnormal high signal intensity on T2-weighted images combined with swelling in the lentiform nucleus, posterior limb of internal capsule, external capsule bilaterally, and left extreme capsule was shown on initial MR; a small low signal intensity in the left putamen on T1- and T2-weighted images and generalized atrophy in the area of high signal intensity on previous T2-weighted images was shown on follow-up MR. These findings indicate infarct with focal hemorrhage, which is one of the histopathological features of CNS complication in hemolytic uremic syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain Diseases / etiology
  • Brain Diseases / pathology*
  • Cerebral Infarction / pathology
  • Child, Preschool
  • Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome / complications*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
  • Male