Idiopathic internal jugular vein thrombosis in a patient with severe dizziness

Abstract

Upper torso deep vein thrombosis usually occurs in association with an indwelling venous catheter and/or malignancy as part of a paraneoplastic syndrome. However, idiopathic internal jugular vein thrombosis is a rare but potentially fatal condition. We report a 59-year-old woman who presented with severe dizziness. Ultrasonography and contrast-enhanced multislice computed tomography revealed thrombi in the left internal jugular vein. This patient had no malignancy, coagulation disorder, or infection. A ventilation/perfusion scan of the lungs showed no evidence of pulmonary embolism. This is a rare case of idiopathic thrombosis of the internal jugular vein.

Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis Presenting as Ménière’s Disease

“…The veins of the semicircular canal form a vein of the vestibular aqueduct and drain into the sigmoid sinus. Therefore, thrombosis of the sigmoid sinus or internal jugular vein can produce venous overload and congestion of the inner ear 11) reported a case of dizziness presenting as acute unilateral vestibulopathy in CVST, and Honma, et al 12) reported a case of severe dizziness induced by idiopathic internal jugular vein thrombosis. Second, IICP induced by CVST may affect the pressure of the inner ear endolymph.…”

Treatment of idiopathic internal jugular vein thrombosis in a healthy woman with enoxaparin and rivaroxiban: Case report and literature narrative review

“…All cases with a diagnosis of internal jugular vein thrombosis (with or without clinical signs), were included in this report [ [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] , [16] , [17] , [18] , [19] , [20] , [21] , [22] , [23] , [24] , [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] , [30] , [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] , [36] , [37] , [38] , [39] , [40] , [41] ]. We excluded cases if the abstracts had deficient clinical data.…”