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Death after Sexual Intercourse

Sexuality is an essential aspect of quality of life. Nevertheless, sexual intercourse is physically challenging and leads to distinct changes in blood pressure, heart, and respiratory rate that may lead to vital complications. We present a case report of a 22-year-old female suffering from subarachn...

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Autores principales: Braun, Christian T., Ricklin, Meret E., Pauli, Andreina, Ott, Daniel, Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K., Pfortmueller, Carmen A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4678062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26697238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/646438
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author Braun, Christian T.
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Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K.
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description Sexuality is an essential aspect of quality of life. Nevertheless, sexual intercourse is physically challenging and leads to distinct changes in blood pressure, heart, and respiratory rate that may lead to vital complications. We present a case report of a 22-year-old female suffering from subarachnoid hemorrhage after sexual intercourse. The patient was immediately transported to hospital by emergency medical services and, after diagnosis, transferred to a tertiary hospital with neurosurgical expertise but died within 24 hours. After postcoital headaches, subarachnoid hemorrhage is the second most common cause of neurological complications of sexual intercourse and therefore patients admitted to an emergency department with headache after sexual intercourse should always be carefully evaluated by cerebral imaging.
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spelling pubmed-46780622015-12-22 Death after Sexual Intercourse Braun, Christian T. Ricklin, Meret E. Pauli, Andreina Ott, Daniel Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K. Pfortmueller, Carmen A. Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report Sexuality is an essential aspect of quality of life. Nevertheless, sexual intercourse is physically challenging and leads to distinct changes in blood pressure, heart, and respiratory rate that may lead to vital complications. We present a case report of a 22-year-old female suffering from subarachnoid hemorrhage after sexual intercourse. The patient was immediately transported to hospital by emergency medical services and, after diagnosis, transferred to a tertiary hospital with neurosurgical expertise but died within 24 hours. After postcoital headaches, subarachnoid hemorrhage is the second most common cause of neurological complications of sexual intercourse and therefore patients admitted to an emergency department with headache after sexual intercourse should always be carefully evaluated by cerebral imaging. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4678062/ /pubmed/26697238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/646438 Text en Copyright © 2015 Christian T. Braun et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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