Clinical features of Trousseau’s syndrome with multiple acute ischemic strokes

• Published in: Neurological sciences Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 2405 - 2411
• Main Authors: Ling, Yitong, Li, Yinye, Zhang, Xiaoyu, Dong, Lihua, Wang, Jintao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.04.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adenocarcinoma; Adenosquamous; Aged; Anticoagulants - therapeutic use; Biomarkers; Cholangiocarcinoma; Esophagus; Female; Gastric cancer; Heparin; Heparin - therapeutic use; Humans; Ischemia; Ischemic Stroke - diagnostic imaging; Ischemic Stroke - epidemiology; Ischemic Stroke - etiology; Kidney cancer; Lesions; Lung cancer; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - drug therapy; Neuroimaging; Neurology; Neuroradiology; Neurosciences; Neurosurgery; Original Article; Patients; Psychiatry; Renal cell carcinoma; Smoking; Squamous cell carcinoma; Syndrome; Thrombophlebitis; Thrombosis; Tumors; NIHSS; D-dimer level; Trousseau’s syndrome; Magnetic resonance image; Multiple acute ischemic strokes; Cancer

Background Trousseau’s syndrome or migrating thrombophlebitis can cause venous or arterial thrombosis; however, multiple acute ischemic strokes (MAIS) caused by Trousseau’s syndrome are rare. The aim of this study was to analyse the clinical features of Trousseau’s syndrome with MAIS and to improve...