Clinical Case Reports (Mar 2022)

Rare case of simultaneous cerebral artery and venous sinus thrombosis in the setting of elevated factor VIII and combined oral contraceptive pills

  • Abeer Sabry Safan,
  • Omnia A Hamid,
  • Abdulrahman Al‐Mashdali,
  • Arwa AlSaud,
  • Shaikha Al‐Shokri,
  • Abdelrahman Hamad

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5560
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 3
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

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Abstract We report a rare case of combined cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and ischemic stroke in a 35‐year‐old female on combined oral contraceptive pills (COCPs) with persistently elevated factor VIII, presenting with headache and sudden onset vertigo, found to have extensive cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and PICA territory ischemic infarct.

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