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Invisible Active Bleeding Due to the Watershed Phenomenon

Open Access
|May 2024

Abstract

A case is presented of an 83-year-old female patient with a strong suspicion of active bleeding, but no diagnostic contrast blush could be seen on the original computed tomography (CT) scan.

Teaching point: When performing CT angiography in veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO), it is important to understand the altered haemodynamics, as flow-related artefacts such as the vascular watershed phenomenon can obscure bleeding.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.3604 | Journal eISSN: 2514-8281
Language: English
Submitted on: Apr 6, 2024
Accepted on: May 10, 2024
Published on: May 23, 2024
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2024 Miloud Dewilde, Birgitt Janssens, published by Ubiquity Press
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