The Unfamiliar Case of COVID-19 Induced Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in a Pediatric Patient

Priyanka Anvekar; Petras Lohana; Abdul Mukhtadir Kalaiger; Syed R Ali; Rohit S Galinde

doi:10.7759/cureus.17209

The Unfamiliar Case of COVID-19 Induced Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in a Pediatric Patient

Cureus. 2021 Aug 16;13(8):e17209. doi: 10.7759/cureus.17209. eCollection 2021 Aug.

Authors

Priyanka Anvekar¹, Petras Lohana², Abdul Mukhtadir Kalaiger³, Syed R Ali⁴, Rohit S Galinde⁵

Affiliations

¹ Medicine and Surgery, MGM Medical College and Hospital, Mumbai, IND.
² Internal Medicine, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Hospital, Karachi, PAK.
³ Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA.
⁴ Internal Medicine, Civil Hospital, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, PAK.
⁵ Radiodiagnosis, Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur, IND.

Abstract

The SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for COVID-19 infection has affected the world from the end of 2019 with pulmonary and extrapulmonary manifestations. Hematologic complications are a rare but severe complication of the COVID-19 infection. There have been very few cases reported in the past showing thrombotic complications in the pediatric age group. We present a case of a 12-year-old male child showing cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) who tested positive for COVID-19 at the same time. We highlight the potential of this complication in the pediatric age group and discuss the treatment, which is an infrequent phenomenon.

Keywords: cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (cvst); covid-19; covid-19 associated coagulopathy; pediatric stroke; therapeutic anticoagulation.

Publication types

Case Reports