BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The diagnosis of cerebral venous and sinus thrombosis (CVST) as a rare but important cause of stroke is challenging. We aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of multidetector-row CT angiography (MDCTA) as a fast and cost-effective imaging tool in diagnosing CVST. MATERIALS AND METHODS Nineteen patients who presented with clinical symptoms of a possible CVST were inc...

Introduction: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first detected in December 2019 the city of Wuhan, China, and has since taken on worldwide proportions. It is known that individuals with Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) have systemic clinical manifestations. Among multisystemic effects, cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) responsible for high mortality rates. In this...

Objectives: To analyze several characteristics of patients with cerebral venous sinus thrombosis in a third level hospital and to fi nd any factors that could be related to poor progress. Materials and methods: A retrospective study was carried out of patients hospitalized from 2000 to 2014 and diagnosed with cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. Results: 55 patients with an average age of 30.2 yea...

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) and posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) are two rare diseases which may present with similar symptoms and signs. We report a case with coexisting PRES and CVST in a 34 years old postpartum female presented with multiple episodes of generalized seizures and bilateral vision loss after delivery. MRI brain and venography revealed left transve...

PURPOSE A case of bilateral papilledema secondary to cerebral venous sinus thrombosis treated with Rituximab, an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody. METHODS A 23 year old obese female with a one week history of blurred vision, headaches and vomiting presented with bilateral papilledema. Her BCVA was 20/50 in right eye and 20/200 in the left eye with severe reduction of visual fields. Laboratory in...

Cerebral venous thrombosis is an uncommon condition that often has severe consequences. Symptomatic thrombosis of intracranial sinuses and veins has been mainly observed in two groups of patients: subjectswith bacterial or fungal infections, either systemic or localized to the cranium; subjects with noninfectious,miscellaneous conditions. In a substantial proportion (about 25%) of the patients ...

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is not an uncommon cause of stroke but very often unrecognized at initial presentation due to lack of clinical suspicion and thus frequently left untreated. CVST is a potentially serious condition which manifests with diverse clinical manifestations, from isolated headache to focal neurological signs and even coma. CVST usually takes place either an inher...

RATIONALE Perimesencephalic nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (PNSAH) is characterized by a pattern of extravasated blood restricted to the perimesencephalic cisterns, normal angiographic findings, and an excellent prognosis with an uneventful course and low risks of complication. The precise etiology of bleeding in patients with PNSAH has not yet been established. The most common hypothesi...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an idiopathic autoimmune disease. Extra intestinal manifestation of IBD has been reported to be 25 to 35%. There is a well-known risk of thrombosis in patients with IBD. It rarely involves cerebral vasculature in the form of arterial stroke or venous sinus thrombosis. This case is about 35 yrs old male who was a known case of ulcerative colitis for the last 1...

BACKGROUND Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare complication of polycythemia. To our knowledge, epoetin alfa-induced polycythemia has not previously been reported in association with cerebral venous thrombosis. CASE DESCRIPTION A 37-year-old patient who was receiving peritoneal dialysis and epoetin alfa (Epogen) therapy presented with a several-day history of worsening headache, and a neuroim...