Atypical Deep Cerebral Vein Thrombosis with Hemorrhagic Venous Infarction in a Patient Positive for COVID-19

L Chougar; B Mathon; N Weiss; V Degos; N Shor

doi:10.3174/ajnr.A6642

Atypical Deep Cerebral Vein Thrombosis with Hemorrhagic Venous Infarction in a Patient Positive for COVID-19

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2020 Aug;41(8):1377-1379. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A6642. Epub 2020 Jun 18.

Authors

L Chougar^{1

2

3}, B Mathon^{2

3

4}, N Weiss^{2

5}, V Degos^{2

6}, N Shor^{7

2}

Affiliations

¹ From the Service de Neuroradiologie (L.C., N.S.) chougar.lydia@gmail.com.
² Service de Neurochirurgie (B.M.).
³ Anesthesia, Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine (V.D.).
⁴ Médecine Intensive Réanimation Neurologique (N.W.), Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
⁵ Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (L.C., B.M.), National Institute for Health and Medical Research U 1127, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Une Unité Mixte de Recherche, 7225, Sorbonne Université, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Une Unité Mixte de Recherche S 1127, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Une Unité Mixte de Recherche 7225, Paris, France.
⁶ Sorbonne Université (L.C., B.M., N.W., V.D., N.S.), Paris, France.
⁷ From the Service de Neuroradiologie (L.C., N.S.).

Abstract

There is growing evidence that Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has a neurotropic and neuroinvasive potential. In particular, neurologic complications associated with the infection by SARS-CoV-2 include strokes that may result from a dysregulated inflammatory response to the infection. We report an atypical deep cerebral vein thrombosis complicated with hemorrhagic venous infarction in a patient positive for SARS-CoV-2 with no risk factors for thrombosis.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

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Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / complications*
Humans
Intracranial Hemorrhages / diagnostic imaging
Intracranial Hemorrhages / etiology*
Intracranial Thrombosis / diagnostic imaging
Intracranial Thrombosis / etiology*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Multimodal Imaging
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / complications*
SARS-CoV-2
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Venous Thrombosis / diagnostic imaging
Venous Thrombosis / etiology*