Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis (CVST) is a type of blood clot that forms in your brain. The clot can cause a brain bleed that leads to stroke that needs immediate medical attention.

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVT) consists of partial or complete occlusion of a sinus or a cerebral vein. CVT represents 0.5-1% of all strokes and is more frequent in young women. This review ...

Background Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) in children is a rare disease with an incidence of only 0.67 per 100 000 children per year. 1 It may affect children of all ages and is often ...

Cavernous sinus thrombosis is a very rare, life-threatening condition that can affect adults and children. In cavernous sinus thrombosis, a blood clot blocks a vein that runs through a hollow ...

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis occurs when a blood clot forms in the brain’s venous sinuses. This prevents blood from draining out of the brain. As a result, blood cells may break and leak blood ...

Transverse sinus thrombosis is a rare type of stroke that a blood clot in the brain can cause. It requires immediate medical attention. Learn more.

These symptoms were followed 5 to 6 days later by severe thrombocytopenia, coagulopathy, and thrombotic events -- fatal cerebral venous sinus thrombosis in the child and multiple arterial strokes ...

Brain MRI is the reference method for the diagnosis of CVT. We report a case of transverse sinus thrombosis in a 32-year-old male patient who consulted for headaches through which we want to study the ...

In some cases, sinus infection can lead to an infection and clotting of nearby blood vessels, a condition called cavernous sinus thrombosis.

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVT) is an increasingly recognized form of stroke in children. 1–3 Estimates from the Canadian Pediatric Ischemic Stroke Registry from 1992 to 1997 put annual CVT ...