Abstract
A 22-year-old pregnant women showed a rapid deterioration in her clinical condition.
Superior sagittal sinus thrombosis was diagnosed, and direct transvenous infusion of t-PA into the superior sagittal sinus was performed.
This treatment resulted in recanalization of the occluded superior sagittal sinus and in a dramatic improvement of neurological deficits.
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