A kidney transplant patient on cyclosporine therapy presenting with dural venous sinus thrombosis: a case report

Dural vein thrombosis is an important but rare cause of headache. Therapy with cyclosporine has been reported to result in thrombotic events. We report an unusual case of superior sagittal and transverse sinus thrombosis associated with cyclosporine therapy in a kidney transplant patient.

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Autores principales: Rajapakse, Senaka, Gnanajothy, Rosana, Lokunarangoda, Niroshan, Lanerolle, Rushika
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9139
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author Rajapakse, Senaka
Gnanajothy, Rosana
Lokunarangoda, Niroshan
Lanerolle, Rushika
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Gnanajothy, Rosana
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description Dural vein thrombosis is an important but rare cause of headache. Therapy with cyclosporine has been reported to result in thrombotic events. We report an unusual case of superior sagittal and transverse sinus thrombosis associated with cyclosporine therapy in a kidney transplant patient.
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spelling pubmed-28039362010-01-10 A kidney transplant patient on cyclosporine therapy presenting with dural venous sinus thrombosis: a case report Rajapakse, Senaka Gnanajothy, Rosana Lokunarangoda, Niroshan Lanerolle, Rushika Cases J Case Report Dural vein thrombosis is an important but rare cause of headache. Therapy with cyclosporine has been reported to result in thrombotic events. We report an unusual case of superior sagittal and transverse sinus thrombosis associated with cyclosporine therapy in a kidney transplant patient. BioMed Central 2009-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2803936/ /pubmed/20062656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9139 Text en Copyright ©2009 Rajapakse et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Rajapakse, Senaka
Gnanajothy, Rosana
Lokunarangoda, Niroshan
Lanerolle, Rushika
A kidney transplant patient on cyclosporine therapy presenting with dural venous sinus thrombosis: a case report
title A kidney transplant patient on cyclosporine therapy presenting with dural venous sinus thrombosis: a case report
title_full A kidney transplant patient on cyclosporine therapy presenting with dural venous sinus thrombosis: a case report
title_fullStr A kidney transplant patient on cyclosporine therapy presenting with dural venous sinus thrombosis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed A kidney transplant patient on cyclosporine therapy presenting with dural venous sinus thrombosis: a case report
title_short A kidney transplant patient on cyclosporine therapy presenting with dural venous sinus thrombosis: a case report
title_sort kidney transplant patient on cyclosporine therapy presenting with dural venous sinus thrombosis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9139
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