Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis Following the Use of Oral Contraceptive Pills in a Young Woman: A Case Report
Zohreh Akbari, Ali Salami, Ali Movahedi, Seyyedeh Maryam Seyyedy, Kiana Babaei · 2026
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Zohreh Akbari and colleagues report a young woman whose birth control pills likely set up a rare, dangerous clot in the veins around the brain's core. The case report is from twenty twenty-six. She was thirty-four and had taken oral contraceptives for a year for polycystic ovary syndrome. She arrived with severe headache, seizures, fading consciousness, and both eyelids swollen.
A plain CT scan showed extensive bleeding inside the brain, with signs pointing to cavernous sinus thrombosis, a clot in the venous caverns beside the pituitary. She was too unstable for the vein-specific imaging that would confirm it, so the diagnosis stayed presumptive. Treatment was heparin, pressure control inside the skull, and finally removal of part of the skull as she worsened. The authors urge emergency teams to suspect this clot early in patients with clot-promoting factors, and to image and anticoagulate fast.
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| CREATOR | Zohreh Akbari, Ali Salami, Ali Movahedi, Seyyedeh Maryam Seyyedy, Kiana Babaei |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 12 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |