Basilar artery thrombosis during sexual intercourse

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An ischemic stroke during sexual intercourse is very rare. A basilar artery thrombosis during sexual intercourse has not been described previously. We report a young woman with a life-threatening basilar artery thrombosis during sexual intercourse, with a resulting locked-in syndrome. The positive high intensity transient signals (HITS) diagnosis showed a right-to-left shunt and is in line with paradoxic embolism. The molecular genetics revealed a homozygosity 4G/4G in the region PAI1, -675 (promoter polymorphism) as a risk factor for ischemic stroke. Sexual intercourse is a possible, albeit unusual stroke cause, especially in young people.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:74

Enthalten in:

Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia - 74(2020) vom: 18. Apr., Seite 238-240

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Posa, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Mueller, Tobias [VerfasserIn]
Ungurs, Olga [VerfasserIn]
Kornhuber, Malte [VerfasserIn]
Zierz, Stephan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Basilar artery thrombosis
High intensity transient signals (HITS)
Ischemic stroke
Journal Article
Persistent foramen ovale (PFO)
Sexual intercourse

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Date Completed 17.08.2020

Date Revised 17.08.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jocn.2020.01.071

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM305788442