Pituitary Apoplexy and Thunderclap Headache
Published Mar 1, 2007 · I. Garza, Jacobo Kirsch
Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain
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Abstract
A 21-year-old woman with a past medical history only significant for infrequent episodic tension-type headache presented to her local emergency department with a new type of headache. The pain had a sudden onset, was maximum in intensity immediately, and stayed localized at the vertex. Migrainous features such as nausea, photophobia, or phonophobia were absent. Pain could only be described as “constant and severe.” In synthesis, she presented with a “Thunderclap
Study Snapshot
Key takeawayThunderclap headache" is a sudden, intense, and non-migrainous headache characterized by sudden onset, maximum intensity, and localization at the vertex.
PopulationOlder adults (50-71 years)
Sample size24
MethodsObservational
OutcomesBody Mass Index projections
ResultsSocial networks mitigate obesity in older groups.