[Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and ulcerative colitis].

Autor: Alcalde Encinas MM; Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital 'Santa María del Rosell, Cartagena, Murcia, España., Pérez-Gracia A, Hallal H, Bautista De Prado J, Conesa Pallarés FJ, Vilaplana García R
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj: Revista espanola de enfermedades digestivas [Rev Esp Enferm Dig] 2000 Feb; Vol. 92 (2), pp. 105-8.
Abstrakt: Hypercoagulability is a extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease, which could provoke thromboembolic phenomena. Central nervous system venous thrombosis is a rare complication and could be unnoticed. We report on a patient with ulcerative colitis who presented cerebral venous sinus thrombosis as the first manifestation of a hypercoagulable state. We review the literature and discuss about the pathogenic mechanisms of such complication.
Databáze: MEDLINE