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Superior Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis in a Young, Immunocompetent HIV Patient: A Rare Case
Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare form of stroke that can present with various clinical features. In addition, it can present with nonspecific neurological features, and initial computed tomography (CT) cannot rule it out even if negative. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a hyperco...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580108/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34786227 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18625 |
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author | Mir, Wasey Ali Yadullahi Shrestha, Dhan B Poudel, Ayusha Reddy, Vijay K Sullivan, Thomas |
author_facet | Mir, Wasey Ali Yadullahi Shrestha, Dhan B Poudel, Ayusha Reddy, Vijay K Sullivan, Thomas |
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description | Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare form of stroke that can present with various clinical features. In addition, it can present with nonspecific neurological features, and initial computed tomography (CT) cannot rule it out even if negative. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a hypercoagulable state; however, it is not much discussed. Here, we present a case of a 24-year-old immunocompetent female who presented with acute meningeal symptoms. She was managed as a case of an opportunistic central nervous system infection at initial presentation, which did not resolve her symptoms completely. Later, however, cerebral thrombosis was diagnosed, and she improved symptomatically on anticoagulants. |
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spelling | pubmed-85801082021-11-15 Superior Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis in a Young, Immunocompetent HIV Patient: A Rare Case Mir, Wasey Ali Yadullahi Shrestha, Dhan B Poudel, Ayusha Reddy, Vijay K Sullivan, Thomas Cureus Neurology Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare form of stroke that can present with various clinical features. In addition, it can present with nonspecific neurological features, and initial computed tomography (CT) cannot rule it out even if negative. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a hypercoagulable state; however, it is not much discussed. Here, we present a case of a 24-year-old immunocompetent female who presented with acute meningeal symptoms. She was managed as a case of an opportunistic central nervous system infection at initial presentation, which did not resolve her symptoms completely. Later, however, cerebral thrombosis was diagnosed, and she improved symptomatically on anticoagulants. Cureus 2021-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8580108/ /pubmed/34786227 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18625 Text en Copyright © 2021, Mir et al. https://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. |
spellingShingle | Neurology Mir, Wasey Ali Yadullahi Shrestha, Dhan B Poudel, Ayusha Reddy, Vijay K Sullivan, Thomas Superior Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis in a Young, Immunocompetent HIV Patient: A Rare Case |
title | Superior Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis in a Young, Immunocompetent HIV Patient: A Rare Case |
title_full | Superior Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis in a Young, Immunocompetent HIV Patient: A Rare Case |
title_fullStr | Superior Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis in a Young, Immunocompetent HIV Patient: A Rare Case |
title_full_unstemmed | Superior Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis in a Young, Immunocompetent HIV Patient: A Rare Case |
title_short | Superior Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis in a Young, Immunocompetent HIV Patient: A Rare Case |
title_sort | superior sagittal sinus thrombosis in a young, immunocompetent hiv patient: a rare case |
topic | Neurology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580108/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34786227 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18625 |
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