Tehran University of Medical Sciences Case Reports in Clinical Practice 2538-2683 1 1 2016 01 20 4 6 EN Abbas Tafakhori Iranian Center of Neurological Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Seyed Sadeq Kalantar Iranian Center of Neurological Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Amirhossein Modabbernia Iranian Center of Neurological Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Vajiheh Aghamollaii Iranian Center of Neurological Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2016 01 20 2016 01 20 A 40-year-old woman visited our emergency department due to a 3-day history of headache. She was found to have deep cerebral vein thrombosis, which was worsened after initiation of heparin treatment. We present her as the only reported case of unilateral thalamic and basal ganglia edema in the setting of deep vein thrombosis secondary to bacterial meningitis. https://crcp.tums.ac.ir/index.php/crcp/article/view/22 https://crcp.tums.ac.ir/index.php/crcp/article/download/22/2