title: Incidence and epidemiology of cerebral venous thrombosis.
abstract: Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis is a disorder whose epidemiology has changed over the past few decades. It is no longer regarded as a uniformly fatal disease. CVST is not a rare disorder. It may have a differential geographic distribution with a higher incidence in the Asian world. It is a disease of neonates, younger women and men, often a hypercoagulable state, either acquired (e.g., cancer) or a genetic prothrombotic condition may be present. Outcome is not uniformly dismal and prognostic criteria that detect patients with a poor outcome have become available from prospective studies. There is a paucity of well designed large scale epidemiologic studies focused on venous thrombosis from regions where it is relatively frequent (South Asia, Middle East). The newer epidemiologic data derived from a Caucasian database; suggest a better overall prognosis, younger age at distribution than arterial stroke.
authors.affiliation: The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.
authors.forename: Fazeel Mukhtar
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Siddiqui
authors.forename: Ayeesha K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Kamal
mesh_terms: D002550:Cerebral Veins / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D020767:Intracranial Thrombosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010154:Pakistan / Q000453:epidemiology; D011379:Prognosis; D012851:Sinus Thrombosis, Intracranial / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*