Thrombosis of Intracranial Veins

Cerebral Strokes Associated with Pregnancy and the Puerperium

“…Reports from other sources show that rost strokes in association with pregnancy occur below the awe of 35 years, but this probably reflects no more -Age-specific distribution of strokes associated with childbirth compared with age distribution of pregnant women (Scotland). Sources of information: Annual Report of the Registrar General for Scotland (1965); Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow; Bickel and Baran (1952); Boshes and McBeath (1954); Burt, Donnelly, and Whitener (1951); Cairns and Melton (1942) ;Carroll, Leak, and Lee (1966); Davidson (1945); Fishman, Cowen, and Silbermann (1957); Hunt (1917); Hyland (1950); Joseph (1942); Kendall (1948); King (1950); Koek and Schreuder (1951); Krayenbiihl (1954); Lemmi and Little (1960); Lorincz and Moore (1962); McNairn (1948); Martin and Sheehan (1941). Martin (1941); Prakash and Singh (1960); Richards (1965); Sinclair (1902); Stansfield (1942); Stevens (1954Stevens ( , 1958; Stevens and Ammerman (1959).…”

“…Martin invoked Batson's work on the vertebral venous plexus as providing a possible anatomical pathway for the propagation of thrombi from the pelvic veins to the intracranial venous complex. However, Kendall (1948) argued cogently against this hypothesis, and, in view of the difficulty experienced by Beck (1948) in trying to produce thrombosis of the dural sinuses experimentally, it seems unlikely that intracranial venous thrombosis would readily develop secondary to thrombosis of the pelvic veins. Also, of 34 cases of cerebral venous thrombosis confirmed at post-mortem examination, only seven had evidence of thrombosis of the pelvic or lower limb veins (Carroll, Leak, and Lee, 1966).…”

Postpartum Headache Following Regional Analgesia; A Symptom of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis

“…It is believed that the pathogenesis is from venous stasis, endothelial damage, and increased eoagulable state that exist during the peripartum period. 4 In some patients this condition may be associated with or followed by leg vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism. In recent reports some of these patients with CVT had received regional analgesia.…”

Cerebral Thrombosis Complicating Pregnancy

“…This disease was recognized in the nineteenth century, cases being described by MWni6re (1828), Churchill (1854), and Gowers (1893). Interest in this subject has revived in the last 12 years owing to Ritchie Russell (1939), Sheehan (1939), Symonds (1944, Purdon Martin (1939Martin ( , 1948, and Kendall (1948).…”