ArticleThe journal of headache and pain2018
Vascular wall imaging in reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome - a 3-T contrast-enhanced MRI study.
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- Idiopathic extracranial internal carotid artery vasospasm: case report and systematic review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Pooled it
- MR Intracranial Vessel Wall Imaging: A Systematic Review.Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging · 2020Pooled it
- Qualitative Assessment and Reporting Quality of Intracranial Vessel Wall MR Imaging Studies: A Systematic Review.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2019Pooled it
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- Non-Atherosclerotic and Genetic Intracranial Stenoses: Diagnostic Challenges and Emerging Genetic Insights.Journal of neuroendovascular therapy · 2026Review
- Concurrent Extracerebral Vasoconstriction in Patients with Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Beyond the "string of beads": case-based exploration of diagnostic pitfalls and solutions in reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Review
- Treatment-Related Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Radiological Findings in Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome: A Systematic Review of Literature.Cureus · 2024Review
- Headache Attributed to Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome (RCVS).Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Advances in Management of the Stroke Etiology One-Percenters.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2023Review
- Vasoconstriction and long-term headache in reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome.Journal of neurology · 2023Article
- [A contrast medium uptake of the vessel wall is not specific for cerebral vasculitis].Der Nervenarzt · 2022Article
- Pathophysiology of reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome.Journal of biomedical science · 2022Review
- Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome: review of neuroimaging findings.La Radiologia medica · 2022Review
- Diagnosis and follow-up evaluation of central nervous system vasculitis: an evaluation of vessel-wall MRI findings.Journal of neurology · 2022Article
- Vessel Wall Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Cerebrovascular Diseases.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Transient visual field loss after COVID-19 vaccination: Experienced by ophthalmologist, case report.American journal of ophthalmology case reports · 2021Article
- Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome Presenting as Transient Vessel Wall Enhancement on Contrast-Enhanced Fluid-Attenuated Inversion Recovery Images: A Case Report and Literature Review.Taehan Yongsang Uihakhoe chi · 2020Article
- Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome and Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome: Clinical and Radiological Considerations.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundLimited histopathology studies have suggested that reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndromes (RCVS) does not present with vascular wall inflammation. Previous vascular imaging studies have had inconsistent vascular wall enhancement findings in RCVS patients. The aim of this study was to determine whether absence of arterial wall pathology on imaging is a universal finding in patients with RCVS.
methodsWe recruited patients with RCVS from Taipei Veterans General Hospital prospectively from 2010 to 2012, with follow-up until 2017 (n = 48). We analyzed the characteristics of vascular wall enhancement in these patients without comparisons to a control group. All participants received vascular wall imaging by contrasted T1 fluid-attenuated inversion recovery with a 3-T magnetic resonance machine. The vascular wall enhancement was rated as marked, mild or absent.
resultsOf 48 patients with RCVS, 22 (45.8%) had vascular wall enhancement (5 marked and 17 mild). Demographics, clinical profiles, and cerebral artery flow velocities were similar across patients with versus without vascular wall enhancement, except that patients with vascular wall enhancement had fewer headache attacks than those without (p = 0.04). Follow-up imaging completed in 14 patients (median interval, 7 months) showed reduced enhancement in 9 patients, but persistent enhancement in 5.
conclusionAlmost half of our RCVS patients exhibited imaging enhancement of diseased vessels, and it was persistent for approximately a third of those patients with follow-up imaging. Both acute and persistent vascular wall enhancement may be unhelpful for differentiating RCVS from central nervous system vasculitis or subclinical atherosclerosis.
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