Patient is a 53-year-old man with end-stage hepatitis B liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension who presented with altered mental status, acute respiratory and renal failure and hypotension now with multiorgan failure status post intubation with unclear neurological prognosis. Please evaluate for ischemia, cerebral edema, and encephalopathic changes. There is no evidence of intracranial hemorrhage, mass or edema. There are no CT findings of stroke, however if stroke is of clinical concern recommend MRI.The ventricles and basal cisterns are normal in size and configuration. There are no CT findings of cerebral edema.The calvaria and skull base are radiographically normal. The visualized paranasal sinuses and mastoid air cells are normally pneumatized.
Normal brain CT.