Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome associated with hormone therapy for intrauterine insemination

Cephalalgia

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1127-1132

  Freilinger, T ^a   Schmidt, C ^a   Duering, M ^a   Linn, J ^a   Straube, A ^a   Peters, N ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

hormone treatment; intra arterial nimodipine; intrauterine insemination; RCVS; reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; HEPARIN; NIMODIPINE;

ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GAIT DISORDER; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HEADACHE DISORDERS, PRIMARY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVULATION INDUCTION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 78449278036     PISSN: 03331024     EISSN: 14682982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0333102409360675     Document Type: Article

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