Differentiating Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome With Subarachnoid Hemorrhage From Other Causes of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage


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Muehlschlegel S., Kursun O., TOPÇUOĞLU M. A., Fok J., Singhal A. B.

JAMA NEUROLOGY, cilt.70, sa.10, ss.1254-1260, 2013 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

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IMPORTANCE Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS) is a clinical-angiographic syndrome characterized by recurrent thunderclap headaches and reversible segmental multifocal cerebral artery narrowing. More than 30% of patients with RCVS develop subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Patients with RCVS with SAH (RCVS-SAH) are often misdiagnosed as having potentially ominous conditions such as aneurysmal SAH (aSAH) or cryptogenic "angiogram-negative" SAH (cSAH) owing to overlapping clinical and imaging features.