Dysfunctional fibrinolysis and cerebral venous thrombosis

Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is an uncommon neurological disease with high morbidity and mortality. Even after extensive thrombophilia screening, majority of the thrombosis cases remain with unknown etiology. Hypofibrinolysis due to acquired or congenital deficiencies or abnormalities in factors in the fibrinolytic cascade is a known cause of thrombosis at any site. In the present study 104 cases of radiologically confirmed CVT cases were...