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Contrast Enhancement CT Scan & Post-Endarterectomy Hemorrhage Stroke 17:898-901, Ropper,A.H.&Kehne,S.M., 1986 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract Cerebral hemorrhage,an unusual complication of endarterectomy,is often attributed to postoperative hypertension.A patient with a middle cerebral artery stroke had a hemorrhage without hypertension,2 days postoperatively.Pronounced contrast enhancement of the infarction during the 7 weeks prior to surgery reflected severe disruption of the blood- brain barrier.Contrast CT scans may detect patients at risk for post- endarterectomy hemorrhage even 2 months after a stroke or TIA.

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