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Cerebral Venous Thrombosis in Adults
A Study of 40 Cases From Saudi Arabia
From the Division of Neurology (A.D., S.Al-R., M.A., A.R. Al T.) and the Department of Radiology (T.M.), King Saud University; and the Division of Neurology, King Fahad National Guard Hospital (A.A., S.Al-R., T.O.), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Correspondence to Dr Abdulkader Daif, Division of Neurology, King Khalid University Hospital, PO Box 7805 (38), Riyadh 11472, Saudi Arabia.
Background and Purpose We undertook this study to determine the frequency, clinical patterns, and etiologies of cerebral venous thrombosis in a Middle Eastern country.
Methods Records of all adult patients admitted with an angiographically documented diagnosis of cerebral venous thrombosis from 1985 through 1994 in two major hospitals of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, were reviewed.
Results Forty patients (20 men, 20 women) aged 16 to 40 years were identified. Hospital frequency was 7 per 100 000 patients, and the relative frequency against arterial strokes was 1:62.5. Nineteen cases (47%) had a clinical picture of pseudotumor cerebri. Behçet's disease was the cause in 10 cases (25%). Other causes included antiphospholipid antibodies in 4, protein S deficiency in 3, intracranial tumors in 3, systemic lupus erythematosus in 3, infections in 3, antithrombin III deficiency in 2, postpartum in 1, and oral contraceptives in 1.
Conclusions Cerebral venous thrombosis in adults is not uncommon in Saudi Arabia. Behçet's disease is the single most common etiology. Infection is no longer an important cause, whereas "new" coagulation disorders are common. Patients with a pseudotumor cerebri syndrome should undergo angiography or brain MRI before being labeled idiopathic.
Key Words: epidemiology • cerebral embolism and thrombosis • Saudi Arabia
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