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See Latest ArticlesSuccessful Treatment of Plasma Exchange for Severe Cerebral Venous Thrombosis with Thyrotoxicosis
Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases , 06/04/09
Usami K et al. - The authors report a 34-year-old woman who developed severe CVT with mental symptoms and intracerebral hemorrhage with central herniation. She had a hypercoagulable state accompanied by thyrotoxicosis. Aggressive medical therapies including unfractionated heparin, a mixture of concentrated glycerin and fructose, and intravenous administration of thiamazole, iohexol, and propranolol were ineffective. The patient was treated with plasma exchange (PE) two times, in addition to aggressive medical therapies. The neurologic symptoms and laboratory data including high levels of thyroid hormones began to improve soon after the first PE. Activated partial thromboplastin time was prolonged after PE although the heparin dose was not changed. After 6 months, her modified Rankin Scale score was 2. PE should be considered for severe CVT as a result of a hypercoagulable state accompanied by thyrotoxicosis, because it not only reduces thyroid hormones, but also might remove multiple prothrombotic factors.
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