Background: Food-born botulism is caused by ingestion of contaminated food with clostridium botulinum neurotoxin. Case: In food-born botulism, due to acetylcholine release blockade, neuromuscular signs and symptoms are common, but in this case report we present a food-born botulism with papiledema and venous sinus thrombosis. Conclusion: Papiledema and fever could not rule out the diagnosis...

a 20-year-old woman was admitted to a gynecology hospital in her 6th month of pregnancy for high blood pressure and tonic-clonic seizure. primary diagnosis was eclampsia, and for that reason she underwent cesarean section. she also had headache on frontal and parietal areas without nausea or vomiting. there was not a focal neurological sign. rheumatology consultation was requested. systemic lup...

Subarachnoid hemorrhage and dural sinus thrombosis are important manifestations of neuropsychiatric lupus erythematosus. We report the case of a woman with relapsed lupus nephritis, in partial remission, who presented with the unusual combination of dural sinus thrombosis (due to protein S functional deficiency) and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. She had a fatal outcome, as has often been ...

The combination of Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome (APS) and Autoimmune Haemolytic Anemia (AIHA) is extremely unusual. However, APS with underlying SLE has a well-documented link to Coomb’s positive AIHA. antibody syndrome autoimmune haemolytic anaemia can cause cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, which rare neurologic symptom. We reported 16- year-old girl the neurology ward dull aching heada...

BACKGROUND Perioperative straight sinus thrombosis is extremely rare. CASE DESCRIPTION A 59-year-old female was admitted to our department because of incidentally found small anterior cerebral artery (A1) aneurysm with microbleeding. After clipping the cerebral aneurysm, she had delayed emergence from anesthesia, total aphasia, and right hemiparesis. Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR...

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...

Neglect of odontogenic infections can have serious consequences. If they spread through fascial planes and intracranially they can cause an abscess, orbital cellulitis, and eventually cavernous sinus thrombosis. The authors report a case of rapid progressive bilateral orbital cellulitis and cavernous sinus thrombosis that originated from dental caries. Septic cavernous sinus thrombosis is a med...

Inflammatory bowel disease is characterized by a chronic inflammatory state and is therefore associated with abnormalities in coagulation and a hypercoagulable state. Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis is a rare complication of inflammatory bowel disease yet contributes significant morbidity and mortality to those affected. Early diagnosis is critical, as a delay in diagnosis portends a worse pro...

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis is an uncommon condition with a variable clinical presentation, often resulting in a delayed diagnosis. The most common risk factors are pregnancy and puerperium, oral contraceptive use, head injury, dehydration, blood dyscrasias, malignancies, and systemic diseases. We present a nineteen-year-old female in whom a superior sagittal sinus thrombosis was caused by...

BACKGROUND Estimations of D-dimer correlate with deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism and may serve as a marker of cortical venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). AIM To study the usefulness of D-dimer in the diagnosis of CVST. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 26 patients with CVST were subjected to a detailed medical history and neurological evaluation. A cranial MRI was carried out...