Age-Stratified Risk of Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis After SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination

Katarzyna Krzywicka1, Anita van de Munckhof1, Mayte Sánchez van Kammen1

  • 1From the Departments of Neurology (K.K., A.v.d.M., M.S.v.K., J.M.C.) and Vascular Medicine (M.M.L.), Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Departments of Neurology (M.R.H., M.A.) and Hematology (J.A.K.H.), Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern; Department of Neurology (K.J., E.L., T.T.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital; Department of Clinical Neuroscience (K.J., E.L., T.T.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Neurology (J.P.), Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Finland; Department of Internal Medicine (S.M.) and Radboud Institute of Health Sciences (S.M.), Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (M.M.L.), UK; University of Lille (C.C.), Inserm, CHU Lille, U1172-Lille Neuroscience and Cognition, France; Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (A.H.Z.), Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health (J.M.F., D.A.d.S.), Neurology Service, Hospital de Santa Maria/Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte (CHULN), University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Neurology
|December 18, 2021
PubMed
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