Table 1.
No. | Age/ sex |
Clinical presentation |
Risk factor |
Location of thrombosis |
Duration of heparin therapy |
Predisposing factor |
Neurologic findings |
Follow-up/ months |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 35 /F | Headache, blurred vision |
– | Left transverse | 3 days | Antithrombin III deficiency |
Papilledema | 11 |
2 | 44/F | Headache, right side weakness |
OCP | Left transverse and SSS |
7 days | – | Papilledema, right hemiparesis |
23 |
3 | 21/M | Headache, seizure | Head trauma |
SSS | 4 days | – | Papilledema | 22 |
4 | 41/F | Headache | OCP | Left transverse | 5 days | – | Papilledema | 21 |
5 | 47/F | Headache | OCP | Left transverse | 6 days | – | Papilledema | 18 |
6 | 44/F | Headache | OCP | Right transverse and SSS |
6 days | – | Papilledema,visual field defects |
16 |
7 | 23/F | Headache | OCP | Right transverse | 10 days | – | Papilledema | 13 |
8 | 45/M | Headache, left side weakness |
Opium | Right transverse | 2 weeks | – | Papilledema and left hemiparesis |
11 |
9 | 51/F | Headache,blurred vision |
– | Left transverse | 1 week | Antiphospholipid ab syndrome |
Papilledema | 12 |
10 | 48/F | Headache, seizure, drowsiness |
OCP | Left transverse | 7 days | – | Papilledemal | 12 |
11 | 36/M | Headache, seizure | – | SSS | 8 days | Antiphospholipid ab syndrome |
Papilledema | 9 |
12 | 18/F | Headache, blurred vision |
OCP | Left transverse | 14 days | – | Papilledema | 7 |
13 | 24/F | Headache, seizure | Post partum |
Left transverse SSS |
4 days | Protein c deficiency |
Papilledema, visual field defect |
7 |
14 | 45/F | Headache, right side weakness |
OCP | Left transverse | 6 days | – | Papilledema,right side paresis |
6 |
15 | 26/F | Headache, blurred vision |
OCP | Left and right transverse, posterior part of SSS |
2 days | – | Papilledema, six nerve palsy bilateral and l.o.c |
10 |
16 | 20/F | Headache, tinnitus, vertigo |
OCP | Right transverse | 14 days | – | Papilledema | 9 |
17 | 37 /M | Headache, focal seizure |
– | SSS | 10 days | APA syndrome | Papilledema | 11 |
18 | 33/F | Headache, tinnitus, diplopia |
OCP | SSS | 14 days | – | Papilledema, right six nerve palsy |
4 |
19 | 29/F | Headache, blurred vision |
OCP | Left transverse | 8 days | – | Papilledema | 3 |
20 | 40/F | Headache, blurred vision |
OCP | Right transverse and sigmoid |
7 days | – | Papilledema | 5 |
21 | 44/F | Headache, blurred vision |
OCP | Left transverse sinus | 21 days | – | Papilledema | 4 |
22 | 22/F | Headache, tinnitus | OCP | Left transverse sinus | 14 days | – | Papilledema | 3 |
23 | 27/M | Headache, dizziness | – | Right transverse and SSS |
16 days | – | Papilledema | 7 |
24 | 39/F | Headache, | OCP | Left transverse | 7 days | APA | Papilledema | 5 |
25 | 29 /F | Headache, seizure, SAH |
OCP | Left transverse | 8 days | – | Papilledema | 7 |
26 | 56/M | Headache, right side paresis |
– | Right transverse | 10 days | APA | Papilledema | 4 |
OCP: oral contraceptive pill; SSS: superior sagittal sinus; APA syndrome: antiphospholipid antibody syndrome; SAH: subarachnoid hemorrhage; LOC loss of consiousness. |