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Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Disorder in a Patient with a Chief Complaint of Headache

As emergency medicine physicians, we have formulated an approach to managing patients with a chief complaint of headache that starts with considering the story the patient relays in the context of a wide differential. Here we will describe a case that presented to our emergency department in hopes t...

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Autores principales: Buttar, Simran, Trivedi, Anuja, Papanagnou, Dimitrios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6003805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29922528
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2487
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description As emergency medicine physicians, we have formulated an approach to managing patients with a chief complaint of headache that starts with considering the story the patient relays in the context of a wide differential. Here we will describe a case that presented to our emergency department in hopes to broaden your differential. Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS), well described in the neurology literature, is characterized by severe headaches that may or may not be accompanied by neurological symptoms and is definitively diagnosed by diffuse constriction of cerebral arteries on cerebral angiogram. Here we present a case of a patient who presented to the emergency department with intermittent severe persistant headaches and was diagnosed with reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-60038052018-06-19 Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Disorder in a Patient with a Chief Complaint of Headache Buttar, Simran Trivedi, Anuja Papanagnou, Dimitrios Cureus Emergency Medicine As emergency medicine physicians, we have formulated an approach to managing patients with a chief complaint of headache that starts with considering the story the patient relays in the context of a wide differential. Here we will describe a case that presented to our emergency department in hopes to broaden your differential. Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS), well described in the neurology literature, is characterized by severe headaches that may or may not be accompanied by neurological symptoms and is definitively diagnosed by diffuse constriction of cerebral arteries on cerebral angiogram. Here we present a case of a patient who presented to the emergency department with intermittent severe persistant headaches and was diagnosed with reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome. Cureus 2018-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6003805/ /pubmed/29922528 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2487 Text en Copyright © 2018, Buttar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_fullStr Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Disorder in a Patient with a Chief Complaint of Headache
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title_short Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Disorder in a Patient with a Chief Complaint of Headache
title_sort reversible cerebral vasoconstriction disorder in a patient with a chief complaint of headache
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6003805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29922528
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2487
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