Catastrophic reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome associated with serotonin syndrome

Headache

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1482-1487

  John, Seby ^a   Donnelly, Megan ^a   Uchino, Ken ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome; serotonin syndrome; stroke; thunderclap headache

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUPRENORPHINE; CITALOPRAM; CORTICOSTEROID; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; ESCITALOPRAM; HYDROCODONE; HYDROMORPHONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MIRTAZAPINE; NICARDIPINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLONUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DEPRESSION; DIAPHORESIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MIGRAINE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPIATE ADDICTION; PARIETOOCCIPITAL STROKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; RIGIDITY; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; STROKE; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE;

CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SEROTONIN AGENTS; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 84885179416     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/head.12202     Document Type: Article

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