Case Report of a 13-Year-Old Female With Trauma Secondary to a Fall From a Golf Cart, Found to Have Intraparenchymal & Subarachnoid Hemorrhages With Transverse Sinus Thrombosis

Umberto M Donato Jr; Sebastian Donato; Andrew Galligan

doi:10.7759/cureus.27251

Case Report of a 13-Year-Old Female With Trauma Secondary to a Fall From a Golf Cart, Found to Have Intraparenchymal & Subarachnoid Hemorrhages With Transverse Sinus Thrombosis

Cureus. 2022 Jul 25;14(7):e27251. doi: 10.7759/cureus.27251. eCollection 2022 Jul.

Authors

Umberto M Donato Jr^{1

2

3

4}, Sebastian Donato⁵, Andrew Galligan^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Pediatric Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, USA.
² Pediatric Oncology, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, USA.
³ Radiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, USA.
⁴ Pediatric Hematology Oncology, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, USA.
⁵ Pediatric Oncology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.

Abstract

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is the occlusion of cerebral veins of the brain secondary to blood clot formation. These can result in increased intracranial pressure, cerebral edema, and may even have fatal consequences such as a stroke. Despite CVSTs being considered a rare pathology, these are said to have an increased incidence in the pediatric population. These individuals with CVST are often asymptomatic causing physicians to often overlook and delay possibly life-saving interventions. The current literature is lacking on CVST examples in the "older" range of the pediatric population, specifically teenagers. Here we present the case of a 13-year-old female with trauma secondary to a fall from a golf cart, who was found to have intraparenchymal and subarachnoid hemorrhages with transverse sinus thrombosis.

Keywords: anticoagulation therapy; cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (cvst); mr venography; mrv; pediatric head trauma; pediatrics emergency.

Publication types

Case Reports