A prolonged stay on the ground after acute carbon monoxide poisoning (COP) is a high-risk situation for venous thromboembolism (VTE), but unusual-site venous thrombosis is rare in this setting. An 81-year-old woman with no personal or family history of VTE who lied on the ground for several hours following massive COP had painful and oedematous temples, so a Doppler ultrasound was prompted and revealed a bilateral superficial temporal vein (STV) thrombosis. There was no heart failure, trauma, inflammatory disease, infection, or vascular malformation. The thrombosis regressed on fondaparinux 2.5 mg given as a daily subcutaneous injection for 45 days. Our observation emphasizes the need to look not only for arteritis but also for venous thrombosis before any temporal pain. STV thrombosis has been reported four times to date. We report the first case of bilateral STV thrombosis in the setting of massive COP and prolonged immobilisation in an elderly patient.
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