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

Ikwinder Kaur, Charmee Vyas, Mohsin Mughal, Haresh Gandhi and Doantrang Du
Curēus (Palo Alto, CA), v 13(3), 13767
08 Mar 2021
PMID: 33842143
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https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13767View
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Abstract

Infectious Disease Neurology Radiology
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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