Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome: Raised Intracranial Pressure Without Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis.

J Neuroophthalmol

The Eye Care Group (DSR, JES, RLL), New Haven, Connecticut; Departments of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences (DSR, SY, JES, RLL), Pathology and Nephrology (GWM), and Neurology (RLL), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; New Haven Rheumatology (AL), New Haven, Connecticut.

Published: December 2015

Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) has been reported to cause elevated intracranial pressure, but usually this is due to cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). We present a 36-year old man with APS with elevated intracranial pressure with neuro-ophthalmic, renal and hematological involvement without identifiable CVST.

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