Abstract

LIRA, David et al. Cerebral venous thrombosis of difficult diagnosis. Rev Neuropsiquiatr [online]. 2014, vol.77, n.2, pp.128-132. ISSN 0034-8597.

Introduction: Cerebral venous thrombosis, rarely cerebrovascular disease, affects mainly children and women of childbearing age. Case report:. Female patient, 45 years of age, evaluated at another health center where she was diagnosed with typhoid fever, she went to emergency referring a time of illness 14 days, with frontal headache of moderate intensity, nausea and vomiting, she was hospitalized with a probable subarachnoid hemorrhage. On physical examination, she had stable vital functions and normal neurological examination, brain tomography showed diffuse cerebral edema, cerebral angiography and MRI of the brain showed thrombosis of the sagittal sinus, transverse and sigmoid. Blood tests were normal. Cerebral venous thrombosis was the diagnosis and she was treated with antiedema cerebral and started anticoagulation with low molecular weight heparin and then with warfarin, after was discharged without neurological impairment. Discussion: Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare entity and presents inespecific symptoms, the most frequent is persistent headache refractory to treatment, some cases are of difficult diagnosis, the diagnostic method of choice is MRI in venous phase and the treatment is with anticoagulants.

Keywords : Anticoagulant; cerebral venous thrombosis; headache.

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