Watershed (borderzone) infarcts

Case contributed by Naushad Ali Basheer Ahamed , 2 Jun 2013
Diagnosis certain
Changed by Henry Knipe, 26 Sep 2015

Updates to Case Attributes

Title was changed:
Watershed infarcts (borderzone) infarcts)
Race changed from Middle eastern to .
Presentation was changed:
The patient is an 8 month old girl, a known case of Sickle Cell Anaemia (SCA)sickle cell anaemia who presented with sickle cell crisis, loss of consciousness and severe shortness of breath.Patient started to develop tonic clonic convulsion which were focally localised mainly to the right arm with associated up-rolling of eyes. Both these were recurrent witnessed episodes and lasted for about 3 min in the past 2 days. CT of the brain was unremarkable.
Diagnostic Certainty was set to .

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