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Reversible anomia and cerebral venous thrombosis: a case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare form of venous stroke with diverse clinical manifestations. Word-finding difficulty (anomia) is rarely reported in patients with cerebral venous thrombosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 30-year-old right-handed Ethiopian female patient, who presente...

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Autores principales: Ayele, Biniyam A., Abdella, Riyad Ibrahim, Wachamo, Leilt Zewdie
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8840775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35148783
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-022-03264-3
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Abdella, Riyad Ibrahim
Wachamo, Leilt Zewdie
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description BACKGROUND: Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare form of venous stroke with diverse clinical manifestations. Word-finding difficulty (anomia) is rarely reported in patients with cerebral venous thrombosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 30-year-old right-handed Ethiopian female patient, who presented with global headache associated with a new onset word-finding difficulty of 2 weeks duration. The headache was not responsive to over-the-counter medications. She reported blurring of vision and nausea. Two months previously, she gave birth to a dead fetus. On neurological assessment, the patient was fully conscious and oriented, with a Glasgow coma score of 15/15, and cranial nerves, motor, and sensory examinations were unremarkable. Examination of fundus showed grade 2 papilledema bilaterally. Language assessment showed normal fluency, compression, naming, reading, and repetition. Naming was assessed using a 60 second word generating test, which indicated anomia. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed left temporoparietal ischemia, magnetic resonance venography showed thrombosis of the left transverse, sigmoid sinus, and corresponding cortical veins. She was started on warfarin 5 mg daily for 6 months and showed significant resolution of symptoms, including the anomia. CONCLUSION: The present case describes a young female patient with reversible anomia as a complication of cerebral venous thrombosis. The case also highlights the importance of timely diagnosis and treatment of cerebral venous thrombosis for a benign prognosis.
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spelling pubmed-88407752022-02-16 Reversible anomia and cerebral venous thrombosis: a case report and review of the literature Ayele, Biniyam A. Abdella, Riyad Ibrahim Wachamo, Leilt Zewdie J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare form of venous stroke with diverse clinical manifestations. Word-finding difficulty (anomia) is rarely reported in patients with cerebral venous thrombosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 30-year-old right-handed Ethiopian female patient, who presented with global headache associated with a new onset word-finding difficulty of 2 weeks duration. The headache was not responsive to over-the-counter medications. She reported blurring of vision and nausea. Two months previously, she gave birth to a dead fetus. On neurological assessment, the patient was fully conscious and oriented, with a Glasgow coma score of 15/15, and cranial nerves, motor, and sensory examinations were unremarkable. Examination of fundus showed grade 2 papilledema bilaterally. Language assessment showed normal fluency, compression, naming, reading, and repetition. Naming was assessed using a 60 second word generating test, which indicated anomia. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed left temporoparietal ischemia, magnetic resonance venography showed thrombosis of the left transverse, sigmoid sinus, and corresponding cortical veins. She was started on warfarin 5 mg daily for 6 months and showed significant resolution of symptoms, including the anomia. CONCLUSION: The present case describes a young female patient with reversible anomia as a complication of cerebral venous thrombosis. The case also highlights the importance of timely diagnosis and treatment of cerebral venous thrombosis for a benign prognosis. BioMed Central 2022-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8840775/ /pubmed/35148783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-022-03264-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title_full Reversible anomia and cerebral venous thrombosis: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Reversible anomia and cerebral venous thrombosis: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Reversible anomia and cerebral venous thrombosis: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Reversible anomia and cerebral venous thrombosis: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort reversible anomia and cerebral venous thrombosis: a case report and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8840775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35148783
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-022-03264-3
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