title: A case of cerebral sinus venous thrombosis resulting in mortality in severe preeclamptic pregnant woman.
abstract: Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a rarely encountered condition during pregnancy. A 21-year-old pregnant woman with labour pains was hospitalized in our clinic. Diagnosis of severe preeclampsia was made based on her clinical and laboratory findings. She suffered from convulsive episodes during postpartum period which lead to initiation of treatment for eclampsia. However neurological and radiological examinations were performed after emergence of additional neurological symptoms disclosed the diagnosis of CVST. In this paper, we aimed to present a case with CVST which diagnosis was confused with eclampsia and resulting in maternal mortality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Dicle University School of Medicine, 21280 Diyarbakir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Hatice Ender
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Soydinc
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ozler
authors.forename: Mehmet Sıddık
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Evsen
authors.forename: Muhammet Erdal
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Sak
authors.forename: Abdulkadir
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Turgut
authors.forename: Serdar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Basaranoglu
authors.forename: Abdurrahim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dusak
authors.forename: Mehmet Guli
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Cetincakmak