Cerebral vasculitis: Diagnosis and follow-up with transcranial Doppler ultrasonography

The authors report a patient with postpartum intracerebral hemorrhage assoc iated with cerebral vasculitis. Cerebral circulation was assessed with tran scranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography, magnetic resonance angiography, and conventional cerebral angiography. initial TCD studies demonstrated bilate ral patchy increased cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) in the anterior ci rculation with complete normalization during remission. This case report pr ovides evidence that cerebral vasculitis leads to relevant CBFV changes and that the TCD technique may assist in diagnosis and follow-up of these pati ents.