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Incidence And Epidemiology Of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis., Fazeel Mukhtar Siddiqui, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Incidence And Epidemiology Of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis., Fazeel Mukhtar Siddiqui, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal
Department of Medicine
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis is a disorder whose epidemiology has changed over the past few decades. It is no longer regarded as a uniformly fatal disease. CVST is not a rare disorder. It may have a differential geographic distribution with a higher incidence in the Asian world. It is a disease of neonates, younger women and men, often a hypercoagulable state, either acquired (e.g., cancer) or a genetic prothrombotic condition may be present. Outcome is not uniformly dismal and prognostic criteria that detect patients with a poor outcome have become available from prospective studies. There is a paucity of well …