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Ep181 Cerebral Venous Thrombosis, Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, Giant Cell Arteritis and Peripartum Headaches

Emergency Medicine Cases

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Pituitary Apoplexy in Press Syndrome

Cerebral venous thrombosis can be a very difficult diagnosis to make in the emergency department. The third trimester of pregnancy and the postpartum period, a hypercoagable state predisposes to venous sinusThrombosis as does exogenous estrogen. So that's a little bit about what pituitary apoplexy is in press syndrome. And I think it's really important to stress that one pitfall that we talked about in part one was to be very careful of diagnosing a patient for the first time with a migraine headache.

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