DOUGLAS MENDES NUNES, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Antonio Rocha, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Carlos Jorge da Silva, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

REGINALDO CARLOS BONI, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

To review the pathophysiology of brain death To revierw recognizable neuroimaging patterns of brain death To gain awareness of the pitfalls in the vascular imaging when brain death is suspected To learn optimal methods using mulparametric computed tomography to reduce false-negative patients

Brain death is the final stage of a progressive and irreversible brain damage. Some countries legislation requires a full supplementary method to corroborate the diagnosis of brain death by demonstrating the absence of electrical activity, metabolic or brain circulation. We evaluated multiparametric multidetector computed tomography (MDCT), such as CT angiography and CT perfusion maps, of 50 patients after the diagnosis of brain death through clinic examination and evidentiary complementary methods. The international experience confirms the use of multiparametric MDCT as a complementary alternative for the diagnosis of brain death, that this is a safe, reliable and reproducible. We aimed to create a standard protocol for brain death diagnosis and to describe the imaging patterns found in MDCT of patients with confirmed brain death.  

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NUNES, D, Rocha, A, da Silva, C, BONI, R, Multiparametric and Multidetector Computed Tomography Role in the Supplementary Evaluation of Suspicion of Brain Death.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14018702.html