Thrombosis

Researchers at St. James University target thrombosis

Published in Blood Weekly, December 20th, 2007

In this recent study, researchers in Leeds, the United Kingdom conducted a study "To raise awareness of the importance of prompt and appropriate imaging in patients presenting with signs and symptoms suggestive of idiopathic intracranial hypertension."

"Case report with diagnostic tests and discussion of management options. A 15-year-old girl presenting with bilateral optic disc swelling was noted to have extensive thrombosis of intracerebral venous sinuses with the clot extending along the internal jugular vein as inferior as the root of the neck demonstrable on magnetic resonance venography," wrote A.R. Reddy and colleagues, St. James University.

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Source: Blood Weekly (2007-12-20)

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