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

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Cureus


. 2021 Mar 8;13(3):e13767.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.13767.
Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in COVID-19: An Unusual Presentation


Ikwinder Kaur ¹ , Charmee Vyas ² , Mohsin Mughal ¹ , Haresh Gandhi ¹ , Doantrang Du ³



Affiliations

• PMID: 33842143
• PMCID: PMC8025961
• DOI: 10.7759/cureus.13767

Abstract

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.

Keywords: cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (cvst); corona virus disease 2019; thrombo embolic disease.