[Cerebral venous thrombosis: an unusual complication of acute cytomegalovirus infection].

INTRODUCTION

Acute cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection increases the risk of vascular thrombosis but reports of cerebral venous thrombosis are rare.

CASE REPORT: We report a 36-year-old woman who presented with a cerebral venous thrombosis and acute CMV infection heralded by a cytolytic hepatitis. Heterozygous factor V Leiden mutation was also identified. The patient was treated with anticoagulation for 1 year with favourable outcome.

CONCLUSION

Serologic tests for CMV infection should be performed in case of cerebral venous thrombosis with liver cytolysis or flu-like symptoms. CMV infection often triggers thrombosis in combination with other inherited or genetic predisposing risk factors that should always be searched.