Coma in adult cerebral venous thrombosis: The BEAST study

Redoy Ranjan, Gie Ken-Dror, Ida Martinelli, Elvira Grandone, Sini Hiltunen, Erik Lindgren, Maurizio Margaglione, Veronique Le Cam Duchez, Aude Triquenot Bagan, Marialuisa Zedde, Nicola Giannini, Ynte M. Ruigrok, Bradford B. Worrall, Jennifer J. Majersik, Jukka Putaala, Elena Haapaniemi, Susanna M. Zuurbier, Matthijs C. Brouwer, Serena M. Passamonti, Maria AbbattistaPaolo Bucciarelli, Robin Lemmens, Emanuela Pappalardo, Paolo Costa, Marina Colombi, Diana Aguiar de Sousa, Sofia Rodrigues, Patrícia Canhão, Aleksander Tkach, Rosa Santacroce, Giovanni Favuzzi, Antonio Arauz, Donatella Colaizzo, Kostas Spengos, Amanda Hodge, Reina Ditta, Alessandro Pezzini, Jonathan M. Coutinho, Vincent Thijs, Katarina Jood, Turgut Tatlisumak, José M. Ferro, Pankaj Sharma

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Abstract

Background and purpose: Coma is an independent predictor of poor clinical outcomes in cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT). We aimed to describe the association of age, sex, and radiological characteristics of adult coma patients with CVT. Methods: We used data from the international, multicentre prospective observational BEAST (Biorepository to Establish the Aetiology of Sinovenous Thrombosis) study. Only positively associated variables with coma with <10% missing data in univariate analysis were considered for the multivariate logistic regression model. Results: Of the 596 adult patients with CVT (75.7% women), 53 (8.9%) patients suffered coma. Despite being a female-predominant disease, the prevalence of coma was higher among men than women (13.1% vs. 7.5%, p = 0.04). Transverse sinus thrombosis was least likely to be associated with coma (23.9% vs. 73.3%, p < 0.001). The prevalence of superior sagittal sinus thrombosis was higher among men than women in the coma sample (73.6% vs. 37.5%, p = 0.01). Men were significantly older than women, with a median (interquartile range) age of 51 (38.5–60) versus 40 (33–47) years in the coma (p = 0.04) and 44.5 (34–58) versus 37 (29–48) years in the non-coma sample (p < 0.001), respectively. Furthermore, an age- and superior sagittal sinus-adjusted multivariate logistic regression model found male sex (odds ratio = 1.8, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.0–3.4, p = 0.04) to be an independent predictor of coma in CVT, with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.61 (95% CI = 0.52–0.68, p = 0.01). Conclusions: Although CVT is a female-predominant disease, men were older and nearly twice as likely to suffer from coma than women.

Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean journal of neurology
Early online date2024
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 2024

Keywords

  • CVT
  • cerebral venous thrombosis
  • characteristics
  • coma
  • predictors
  • women

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