Article
Recurrent Hemorrhagic Venous Infarctions Caused by Thrombosis of a Pontine Developmental Venous Anomaly and Protein S Mutation.
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association - 1 Nov 2016
Nakamura Yuri, Takase Kei-Ichiro, Matsushita Takuya, Yoshimura Satoshi, Yamasaki Ryo, Murai Hiroyuki, Kikuchi Kazufumi, Kira Jun-Ichi
Abstract excerpt
A 34-year-old man presented with an acute onset of upbeat nystagmus, slurred speech, and limb and truncal ataxias. The patient had a history of limb ataxia and gait disturbance previously treated as brainstem encephalitis with corticosteroids 3 years previously. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed pontine developmental venous anomaly (DVA) and hemorrhagic infarction within the drainage territory of the DVA....
Topics
- Adult
- Anticoagulants
- Blood Coagulation
- Blood Coagulation Tests
- Brain Infarction
- Central Nervous System Vascular Malformations
- Cerebral Angiography
- Cerebral Veins
- DNA Mutational Analysis
