Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Presenting as Severe Headache in a Young Adult

A 27-year-old male with a positive family history of abdominal aortic aneurysm presented to his primary care physician and ultimately to the emergency department with the worst headache of his life and hypertension. An aneurysm of the right internal carotid artery was noted on CT and MRI. Upon furth...

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Autores principales: Alcorn, Sara R., Sorel, Marie-Adele, Auerbach, Stephan, Shaffer, Kitt
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4896234/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27303522
http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v3i2.172
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description A 27-year-old male with a positive family history of abdominal aortic aneurysm presented to his primary care physician and ultimately to the emergency department with the worst headache of his life and hypertension. An aneurysm of the right internal carotid artery was noted on CT and MRI. Upon further imaging and analysis, multiple vascular abnormalities were found, including possible dissection or pseudoaneurysm and multifocal narrowing and dilatation of the arteries of the head and neck. The patient underwent genetic testing revealing Ehlers-Danlos, type IV.
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spelling pubmed-48962342016-06-14 Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Presenting as Severe Headache in a Young Adult Alcorn, Sara R. Sorel, Marie-Adele Auerbach, Stephan Shaffer, Kitt Radiol Case Rep Article A 27-year-old male with a positive family history of abdominal aortic aneurysm presented to his primary care physician and ultimately to the emergency department with the worst headache of his life and hypertension. An aneurysm of the right internal carotid artery was noted on CT and MRI. Upon further imaging and analysis, multiple vascular abnormalities were found, including possible dissection or pseudoaneurysm and multifocal narrowing and dilatation of the arteries of the head and neck. The patient underwent genetic testing revealing Ehlers-Danlos, type IV. Elsevier 2015-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4896234/ /pubmed/27303522 http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v3i2.172 Text en © 2008 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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