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

Emergency Medicine Cases

CHAPTER

The Risk Factors for CVT

Dr. Baskin: I know you're not supposed to have fun when you do an LP, but checking the pressure is fun. There's something cool about watching that column of liquid go up. The patient has a venous clot in one of the large veins draining the brain. You urgently are going to have to anticoagulate them with unfractionated heparin or low molecular weight heparin. If they've then progressed to ischemia and hemorrhage, thrombolysis can be used.

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