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Query: UMLS:C0042384 (
vasculitis
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document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
We report on a 47-year-old white female with a long history of recurrent episodes of migraine with aura, who progressed to develop a continuous intractable headache during the course of which cortical blindness and quadriparesis occurred due to extensive and bilateral hemispheric cerebral infarction. Severe diffuse intracranial major arterial vasospasm was demonstrated by arteriogram. All studies were negative for CNS
vasculitis
, including cerebral biopsy. The arterial spasm reversed itself, but the patient did not improve. Smoking was the only additional risk factor. Vasospasm is an important cause to be considered in migrainous infarctions. The use of vasoconstrictor agents such as
DHE
in patients with migraine with prolonged aura has to be carefully re-evaluated.
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PMID:Severe diffuse intracranial vasospasm as a cause of extensive migrainous cerebral infarction. 837 36
