CVT full form in medical term is Cerebral venous thrombosis. In CVT, the blood starts to clot in cerebral veins in the brain which can cause severe symptoms and problems. The most common thing that happens when CVT occurs is swelling of the part of the brain where the blood has clotted. If in this condition the patient is left untreated, this can be a life-threatening situation for the patient.
If you’re wondering why CVT occurs in the first place, there can be multiple reasons actually. Things like dehydration, infection in the head part, protein deficiencies, head injury or trauma, obesity, and cancerous structures inside the brain can cause CVT. A patient with this health condition can feel mild symptoms like headache and blurred vision to severe symptoms like coma and as we mentioned earlier, it can be deadly if not treated on time. To measure the seriousness of the case and where the clotting is placed inside the brain, doctors use imagery diagnosis tests such as MRI and CT Scans. MRI venogram is the most accurate one that can help doctors or surgeons diagnose the CVT quite well.