J Radiol
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Acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) is a life-threatening emergency with prognosis directly correlated with the delay in diagnosis and treatment. Clinical and laboratory findings are nonspecific and it is imperative to look for findings of AMI on CT and ultrasound examinations performed in patients with acute abdomen. Arterial and venous ischemia are different entities with different clinical and imaging features, treatment and prognosis. ⋯ Venous ischemia is less frequent. Due to its high reported sensitivity (90%), CT should be performed as a firstline imaging modality when AMI is suspected. CT and ultrasound imaging features of AMI include: bowel wall thickness and enhancement abnormalities, pneumatosis, portal venous gas, demonstration of intravascular thrombus, bowel dilatation and ascitis.
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Blood supply to the human thalami is complex and multiple variants exist. The artery of Percheron is one of those variants and is characterized by a solitary arterial trunk that branches from one of the proximal segments of either posterior cerebral artery and supplies blood to the paramedian thalami. ⋯ We report six cases of bithalamic infarction secondary to occlusion of the artery of Percheron. We will illustrate the complex clinical symptomatology and underscore the role of imaging, especially MRI, for diagnosis.