Infant who was on arterial-venous ECMO post cardiac arrest and has just been taken off of ECMO

Neurological
CT of intraventricular hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, and cerebral atrophy in a patient on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
Axial CT without contrast of the brain shows mixed-density fluid in the left lateral ventricle posteriorly and mixed-density fluid in the left parietal-occipital lobe. There is also diffuse prominence of the sulci and ventricular system.

The diagnosis was intraventricular hemorrhage on ECMO and intracerebral hemorrhage on ECMO and cerebral atrophy post ECMO.

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