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Bedside X-ray chest showing bilateral fluffy opacities suggestive of pulmonary edema
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Chest X-ray [Figure 1] showed features of pulmonary edema and plain CT brain showed left cerebellar infarct with mass effect, distortion of the fourth ventricle, dilatation of the lateral and third ventricle with periventricular ooze.
Post EVD non contrast CT brain showing left-sided cerebellar infarct with a mass effect pushing the brainstem to the right, chinking of fourth ventricle and hydrocephalus. Also seen is air within the ventricle following the EVD
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In view of the obstructive hydrocephalus, an external ventricular drainage (EVD) was placed to decompress the ventricles [Figure 2].