[Cerebral venous thrombosisafter asymptomaticcovid-19 infection].

An 18-year-old man with no previous known risk factors of thromboembolic diseases had both symptoms and radiologic findings of a superior sagittal sinus thrombosis one month after asymptomatic covid-19 infection. This case report aims to inform, that sinus thrombosis is a possible complication of a covid-19 infection, and hence, this complication should be considered in adolescents with an asymptomatic presentation of the infection.

[Amphetamine abuse is a possible cause of pontine haemorrhage].

This is a case report of a 55-year-old male, who was admitted due to right-sided sensorimotor deficits and one-and-a-half syndrome He had snorted 5 g of amphetamine over 24 h two months prior to admission. He was normotensive on admission. A CT brain scan showed left pontine haemorrhage, but a CT angiogram showed no vascular malformations nor vessel beading, and a two-month follow-up MRI showed no vascular malformations nor tumours. To the best of our knowledge, this is the fifth published case of pontine haemorrhage, and the first published case of one-and-a-half syndrome related to amphetamine abuse.

[Fatal intracerebral haemorrhage possibly caused by interaction between paracetamol and warfarin]. / Fatal cerebral blødning på grund af mulig interaktionmellem paracetamol og warfarin

This is a case report of an 83-year-old man in warfarin treatment with stable international normalised ratio (INR) after aortic valve replacement and atrial fibrillation. Due to back pain he took paracetamol (acetaminophen) 4 g/day, morphine 30 mg/day and diclofenac as rescue medication for two weeks. After 14 days of treatment he was admitted to a hospital with acute neurological deficits, and a blood sample showed INR levels above 10. A CT-scan of the brain showed an intracerebral haemorrhage. The patient died eight days after admission. Mechanisms of the possible interaction between paracetamol and warfarin are discussed.