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A 5-year old girl with congenital mitral and subaortic stenosis on anticoagulant therapy since her mechanical mitral valve replacement, and a remote history of idiopathic intrahepatic cholestasis requiring liver transplantation presented with jaundice and pruritus. She was found to have elevated transaminases, and an echocardiogram revealed significantly increased right ventricular pressures concerning for pulmonary hypertension. Subsequently, the patient needed to be intubated for respiratory insufficiency and poor cardiac output. After several days in the intensive care unit (ICU), she was noted to be bradycardic and have a dilated right pupil. A stat CT of the head demonstrated a large mixed density right-sided subdural haematoma with mass effect, midline shift and early uncal and transtentorial herniation, as well as a small subdural haematoma on the left (figure 1). The mixed density of the haematoma on CT scan was likely a result of multiple haemorrhages over the...
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