A Rare Case of Young Pregnant Woman With Central Venous Thrombosis Presenting With Headache, Nausea, and Vomiting.

Abstract

Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a rare type of stroke, most often observed in young women. This is a case of a young, pregnant woman who presented to the emergency department with a complaint of sudden onset of headache and was diagnosed with CVT. This report discusses how to approach the diagnosis of CVT in pregnant women, including clinical manifestations, investigation tools, treatments, and prognosis from the literature, in comparison to this case.