Acute seizures in cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: What predicts it?

Seizures are more specific to cerebral vein and sinus thrombosis (CVST) than to other types of stroke (Conrad et al., 2013). About 12–31.9% of patients with CVST have seizures as the presenting feature of the disease. Among them, 44.3% of patients have seizures in the early stage of the disease (Ferro et al., 2003; Masuhr et al., 2006). The rate of mortality is three times higher in CVST patients with seizures than those without seizures (Masuhr et al., 2006). Seizures in CVST can occur during different periods of the disease's course and can be categorized as either “early/acute seizures”, which take place before the diagnosis or during the first 2 weeks afterward, or as “late/remote seizures”, which occur in the years following CVST development (Ferro et al., 2004).
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