Montenegro-Rosales, Héctor and González-Alonso, Blanca and Cárdenas-Sáenz, Omar and Gutierrez-Romero, Alonso (2020) Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome Associated with Infundibular Dilation. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 7 (11). pp. 1-4. ISSN ISSN: 2284-2594
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Abstract
Background: Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS) is defined as a clinical and radiological syndrome that comprises a group of disorders characterized by sudden-onset severe headache and segmental vasoconstriction of the cerebral arteries with resolution within 3 months.Case presentation: A 51-year-old female patient with a 2-week history of sudden-onset severe headache, visual disturbances and cerebellum; no relevant imaging findings, except for an infundibular dilation at the origin of the posterior communicating artery, and so, angiography was performed. When symptoms persisted, a new imaging study was carried out with findings of RCVS as the cause of the symptoms from the beginning.Conclusions: Findings of RCVS can be obtained in various vasculopathies of the nervous system and vasculitis, being misdiagnosed, and so, clinical suspicion is essential; if vasoconstriction is not demonstrated on the initial image and other diagnoses have been excluded, the patient should be managed as having possible or probable RCVS.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome, sudden-onset severe headache |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2021 14:04 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2021 14:04 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/21039 |
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