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Cerebral venous thrombosis in women of childbearing age: diagnosis, treatment, and prophylaxis during a future pregnancy
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Abstract
Sex-specific risk factors for cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) in women include oral contraceptives, pregnancy, puerperium, and hormone replacement therapy. The acute treatment of CVT is anticoagulation using therapeutic doses of low molecular weight heparin, which is also the preferred treatment in the post-acute phase in pregnancy and during breastfeeding. In patients with imminent brain herniation decompressive surgery is probably life-saving. A medical history of CVT alone is not a contraindication for future pregnancies. The optimal dosage of low molecular weight heparin as thrombosis prophylaxis during future pregnancies after a history of venous thrombosis including CVT is the topic of an ongoing trial.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders. - London, 2008, currens
Publication
London : Sage publications ltd , 2020
ISSN
1756-2856
1756-2864
DOI
10.1177/1756286420945169
Volume/pages
13 (2020) , p. 1-8
Article Reference
1756286420945169
ISI
000559048700001
Medium
E-only publicatie
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