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Table 6 398 cases of neurovascular thunderclap headaches, excluding vasoconstriction

From: A systematic review of causes of sudden and severe headache (Thunderclap Headache): should lists be evidence based?

Study type

Final diagnosis

N  

 

Intravascular Air ( N = 2)

 

Case

*Air embolus[79]

1

Case

*Cerebral Venous Air Embolism following dental implanation[80]

1

 

Aneurysm ( N = 18)

 

Cohort

Unruptured Intracranial[27]

1

Cohort

Giant Aneurysm[28]

1

Series

Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysm[35]

7

Case

Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysm[48, 81–83]

4

Case

*Recurrence and growth of previously coiled aneurysm[84]

2

Case

*Carotid artery aneurysm & carotid cavernous fistula[85]

1

Case

Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysm with Thrombosis[86]

1

Case

Carotid artery aneurysm thrombosis[87]

1

 

Cervicocephalic Arterial Dissection (N = 31)

 

Cohort

Carotid Artery Dissection[27]

1

Series

Vertebral Artery Dissection[88]

18

Case

Carotid Artery Dissection[89–91]

4

Case

*Basilar Artery Dissection (coital)[92]

2

Case

*Vertebral Artery Dissection with Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome and RPLS[93]

1

Case

*Vertebral Artery Dissection, Subarachnoid Haemorrhage and PRES[93]

1

Case

Vertebral and Carotid Artery Dissection[94]

1

Case

*Vertebral Artery Dissection with Cerebellar Infarction[95]

1

Case

*Middle Cerebral Artery dissection[96]

1

Case

Vertebral Artery Dissection[97]

1

 

Intracranial Haemorrhage (N = 252)

 

Cohort

Subarachnoid Haemorrhage[17, 27–29, 31, 69]

206

Cohort

Intracerebral Haemorrhage[17, 28, 29]

9

Cohort

Intracranial Haemorrhage[31]

1

Cohort

Subdural Haematoma[31]

1

Cohort

Haemorrhagic malignant glioma[28]

1

Series

Pre-truncal nonaneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage[98]

18

Case

Convexity Subarachnoid Haemorrhage[99]

3

Case

*Right convexity Subarachnoid Haemorrhage associated with right MCA atherosclerosis[99]

1

Case

*Simultaneous multiple brain haemorrhages associated with migraine, & cerebral amyloid angiopathy[100]

1

Case

Spontaneous Retroclival Haematoma[101]

1

Case

*Convexity Subarachnoid Haemorrhage with multiple brain abscesses[102]

1

Case

*Convexity Subarachnoid Haemorrhage with postpartum posterior encephalopathy[102]

1

Case

Convexity Subarachnoid Haemorrhage with vascultitis[102]

1

Case

*Trigeminal Haemorrhagic Inflammatory pseudotumour[103]

1

Case

Left thalamic haematoma[104]

1

Case

*Subarachnoid Haemorrhage secondary to ecchordosis physaliphora[105]

1

Case

*Headache secondary to diffuse subarachnoid density (blood and iohexol) on CT[106]

1

Case

Cerebellar Haemorrhage secondary to cerebellar angioma[107]

1

Case

Temporal Lobe Haematoma[107]

1

Case

Diffuse vasospasm after pretruncal nonaneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage[108]

1

 

Idiopathic (N = 4)

 

Cohort

Arteriovenous Malformation[28]

1

Case

Posterior reversible leucoencephalopathy[109]

1

Case

Thrombotic thrombocytopenia[110]

1

Case

Hypertensive Encephalopathy[111]

1

 

Non-Haemorrhagic Stroke or Cerebral Infarction or Ischaemia (N = 66)

 

Cohort

Stroke or Cerebral Infarction or Ischaemia[17, 27–29, 31]

56

Case

Ischaemic Cerebrovascular Disease[107]

3

Case

PICA Territory Infarction[112]

1

Case

Embolic Cerebellar Infarcts[113]

1

Case

Ischaemic stroke[114]

1

Case

Thunderclap Headache secondary to right semiovale infarction[115]

1

Case

Posterior cerebral artery infarction[116]

1

Case

Vertebral Artery Dissection with left lateral medullary infarction[117]

1

Case

*Occlusion of the posterior communicating artery[118]

1

 

Inflammatory Arteriopathy (N = 6)

 

Case

Cerebral Angiitis[119, 120]

3

Case

*Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease[121, 122]

2

Case

Subarachnoid Haemorrhage secondary to Inflammatory Vasculitis[123]

1

 

Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis (N = 19)

 

Cohort

Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis[17, 27, 29]

3

Case

Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis[124–129]

14

Case

Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis with Intracerebral Haemorrhage[130]

1

Case

*Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis with secondary Hydrocephalus[131]

1

  

398

  1. *Specific Aetiologies not mentioned in Academic reviews.