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Diagnosis of artery dissection
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Cerebral artery dissection is diagnosed by MRA (a way of using MRI to investigate blood vessels). If necessary, CT cerebral angiography or catheter cerebral angiography is performed. BPAS (a way of using MRI to look at the outside of blood vessels) may be used as a special technique to check whether a vessel is bulging, or MRI vessel wall images can show whether there is a hematoma in the vascular wall, confirming that the blood vessel has ruptured.
Cerebral infarction
Cerebral infarction is diagnosed by cranial CT or MRI. Cerebral artery dissection is diagnosed by MRA, CT angiography, or cerebral angiography. The presence of a hematoma in the vascular wall may also be confirmed by MRI vessel wall imaging.
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Subarachnoid hemorrhage is diagnosed by cranial CT. Coronary artery dissection is diagnosed by cerebral angiography or CT angiography, which are scans to investigate the cause of bleeding.
