Licorice consumption-associated thunderclap headache: Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome or subarachnoid hemorrhage?

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Hongliang ^a,b   Wang, Xiao Feng ^a   Wu, Jiang ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOREGULATION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GLYCYRRHIZA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; VASOCONSTRICTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FEMALE; NOTE;

FEMALE; GLYCYRRHIZA; HUMANS; POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME;

EID: 79953307653     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10107     Document Type: Letter

References (7)

1. van Beers EJ, Stam J, van den Bergh WM. Licorice consumption as a cause of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: a case report. Crit Care 2011, 15:R64. 10.1186/cc10040, 21332974.
2. Bartynski WS. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, part 2: controversies surrounding pathophysiology of vasogenic edema. Am J Neuroradiol 2008, 29:1043-1049. 10.3174/ajnr.A0929, 18403560.
3. Zhang HL, Yang Y, Zhou HW, Wu J. Diagnosis of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: does DWI help?. Lancet Neurol 2010, 9:1046-1047. 10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70262-3, 20965431.
4. Coats TJ, Loffhagen R. Diagnosis of subarachnoid haemorrhage following a negative computed tomography for acute headache: a Bayesian analysis. Eur J Emerg Med 2006, 13:80-83. 10.1097/01.mej.0000190277.92731.52, 16525234.
5. Chatterjee N, Domoto-Reilly K, Fecci PE, Schwamm LH, Singhal AB. Licorice-associated reversible cerebral vasoconstriction with PRES. Neurology 2010, 75:1939-1941. 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181feb299, 21098410.
6. Vermeulen M, Hasan D, Blijenberg BG, Hijdra A, van Gijn J. Xanthochromia after subarachnoid haemorrhage needs no revisitation. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1989, 52:826-828. 10.1136/jnnp.52.7.826, 1031927, 2769274.
7. Velthuis BK, Van Leeuwen MS, Witkamp TD, Ramos LM, Berkelbach van der Sprenkel JW, Rinkel GJ. Computerized tomography angiography in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage: from aneurysm detection to treatment without conventional angiography. J Neurosurg 1999, 91:761-767. 10.3171/jns.1999.91.5.0761, 10541232.