Angiographic Manifestations in Cerebral Inflammatory Disease

The authors describe the frequency of vascular abnormalities and dynamic circulatory changes encountered in 27 patients with a variety of cerebral inflammatory diseases. Patients with meningitis demonstrated vasoconstriction of blood vessels at the base of the brain, the periphery, or both. Vasodilatation was frequently seen as well. Hypervascular patterns of three different etiologies, described in the text, were observed in 12 patients.