BACKGROUND Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis is a rare and potentially life-threatening neurologic manifestation of antiphospholipid syndrome. Oral contraceptive pills (OCP) may increase the risk of vascular events, even in people without family history of venous thrombosis. CASE PRESENTATION A 31-year-old woman with four weeks of constant headache and history of taking OCP for one year has be...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis is a rare condition. The most frequent symptoms and signs are headache, focal seizures with or without secondary generalization, unilateral or bilateral paresis and papilledema. We report a case of transverse sinus and superior sagittal sinus thrombosis that presented with diplopia in a pregnant woman. CASE PRESENTATION A 34-year-old...

Evidence-Basis for Anticoagulants for Cerebral Sinus Venous Thrombosis? To the Editor: The recent case of cerebral sinus venous thrombosis (CSVT) in the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton brought my attention to articles that lay out the evidence-basis for the use of full dose heparin and oral anticoagulant drugs for CSVT. Unfortunately, articles published in Stroke by investigators from the...

Aseptic cortical venous thrombosis is rare without concomitant dural sinus thrombosis. Ulcerative colitis is associated with both dural sinus thrombosis and isolated cortical venous thrombosis. We describe a 26-year-old woman with ulcerative colitis who had a spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage. An overlying thrombosed cortical vein was identified on spin-echo MR images and confirmed with angiograp...

A 20 year-old Turkish patient presented with superlor sagittal and lateral sinus thrombosis, The frequency of cerebral venous thrombosis generally is understimated and rnay be the first clinical manifestation. In case of intracranlal hypertension, cerebral venous thrombosis and Behgetbs disease should be tal[en into consideration, especially in the high risk population from Eastern Mediterranea...

BACKGROUND Although Sjögren's syndrome has been known to complicate with white matter lesions, encephalopathy, or stroke, reports of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis due to Sjögren's syndrome with atypical antibodies are rare. CASE REPORT A 50-year-old woman was admitted to our neurological ward with nausea and vomiting following acute onset of severe headache in the left occipital region. Br...

Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is infrequent among cerebrovascular diseases. The simultaneous thrombosis involving both cerebral artery and venous sinus is even extremely rare. We reported a 41-year-old woman who presented with acute headache and left hemiparesis due to concomitant arterial ischemic stroke and recurrent CVT. Extensive investigation disclosed acquired protein C and protein S d...

Cerebral sinus venous thrombosis is an uncommon cause of stroke. Three factors usually predispose to venous thrombosis: hypercoagulability states, venous stasis, and blood vessel wall changes.1--3 In patients with thyrotoxicosis, the increased activity of factor VIII,4 amongst others, results in a hypercoagulability state and has been reported as being a factor which predisposes to cerebral sin...

1. Intracerebral hemorrhage can follow an asymptomatic interval after a trauma and may be due to local or systemic coagulation abnormalities, necrosis of blood vessels in areas of brain injury, transient cerebral dysautoregulation, reduction of intracranial pressure either medically or surgically, or cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. 2. Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis may be easily overlooked ...