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Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in COVID-19: An Unusual Presentation

Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been associated with a significantly increased risk of venous and arterial thromboembolism, particularly in severely sick patients. Recently, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) cases have been reported in the context of coronaviru...

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Autores principales: Kaur, Ikwinder, Vyas, Charmee, Mughal, Mohsin, Gandhi, Haresh, Du, Doantrang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8025961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33842143
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13767
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author Kaur, Ikwinder
Vyas, Charmee
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Gandhi, Haresh
Du, Doantrang
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description Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been associated with a significantly increased risk of venous and arterial thromboembolism, particularly in severely sick patients. Recently, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) cases have been reported in the context of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). These cases either had an active COVID infection with a positive reverse transcription‐polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR) or were symptomatic (fever, respiratory symptoms, myalgia) during the presentation. We present here a 41-year-old male with CVST who had negative RT-PCR and positive immunoglobulin G (IgG) COVID-19 antibodies. He was neither diagnosed nor had a flu-like illness before admission. This case highlights that CVST can be a late sequela of previously undiagnosed asymptomatic COVID-19 infection.
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spelling pubmed-80259612021-04-09 Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in COVID-19: An Unusual Presentation Kaur, Ikwinder Vyas, Charmee Mughal, Mohsin Gandhi, Haresh Du, Doantrang Cureus Neurology Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been associated with a significantly increased risk of venous and arterial thromboembolism, particularly in severely sick patients. Recently, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) cases have been reported in the context of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). These cases either had an active COVID infection with a positive reverse transcription‐polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR) or were symptomatic (fever, respiratory symptoms, myalgia) during the presentation. We present here a 41-year-old male with CVST who had negative RT-PCR and positive immunoglobulin G (IgG) COVID-19 antibodies. He was neither diagnosed nor had a flu-like illness before admission. This case highlights that CVST can be a late sequela of previously undiagnosed asymptomatic COVID-19 infection. Cureus 2021-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8025961/ /pubmed/33842143 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13767 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kaur et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kaur, Ikwinder
Vyas, Charmee
Mughal, Mohsin
Gandhi, Haresh
Du, Doantrang
Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in COVID-19: An Unusual Presentation
title Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in COVID-19: An Unusual Presentation
title_full Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in COVID-19: An Unusual Presentation
title_fullStr Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in COVID-19: An Unusual Presentation
title_full_unstemmed Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in COVID-19: An Unusual Presentation
title_short Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in COVID-19: An Unusual Presentation
title_sort cerebral venous sinus thrombosis in covid-19: an unusual presentation
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8025961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33842143
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13767
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