Can you give me a medical opinion on CT angiogram?

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Please upload your CT angiogram images. I need to go through all the images in your CD DVD and will have a detailed look at the vessels near the C1 vertebra area, including the jugular veins. Regards.

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I can see approximately 84 images of the CT neck and brain angiography (attachment removed to protect patient identity).

As you have rightly pointed out, there is some decrease in the lumen of the jugular veins at the level of the C1 vertebra. One can say that the right internal jugular vein is completely collapsed in a few images, and the left vein is also narrowed and kind of compressed in reference image number 22/ 84 onwards.

Internal jugular veins carry blood from the head and neck areas to the heart. There are valves in the veins that allow the flow of blood in only one direction. The walls of the veins are not elastic and collapse when there is no blood flow. In the images of your scan, due to the combined effect of the venous return, the valves, and the non-elastic walls of the veins, blood in the vein had still not reached the C1 area when the scan was taken, and this is for less than a second. The CT scan machine is high speed, and so this particular image was obtained. In other words, a normal jugular vein can be imaged in collapsed phase during a CT scan. It is interesting to know that a vein that does not collapse is abnormal and might be due to a clot within. Please do feel free to ask any queries.

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Sorry to hear about your partner. Can you please give me details of the illness so that I can understand the problems better way? Please include what discussion you have had with the doctors and any clinical diagnosis which has been discussed.

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After closely inspecting the images, I do feel that there is a possibility of the transverse processes of the atlas vertebra compressing on the internal jugular veins bilaterally.

This finding can cause venous outflow obstruction from the brain. This can be an important finding and needs to be discussed with the neurologist who has done the clinical examination.

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