Recurrent Coital Headache Associated With an Unruptured Carotid Saccular Aneurysm

• Published in: Headache Vol. 49; no. 8; pp. 1232 - 1233
• Main Authors: Uterga, Juan M., De Garay, Miguel A. Gonzalez, De Luna, Itziar Ortiz, Uribarri, Juan B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.09.2009; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Angiography, Digital Subtraction; Biological and medical sciences; carotid aneurysm; Carotid Artery, Internal - diagnostic imaging; Carotid Artery, Internal - pathology; Carotid Artery, Internal, Dissection - complications; Carotid Artery, Internal, Dissection - diagnostic imaging; Carotid Artery, Internal, Dissection - pathology; Coitus - physiology; Consciousness Disorders - etiology; Electroencephalography; Embolization, Therapeutic; Female; headache associated with sexual activity; Headache Disorders, Primary - diagnostic imaging; Headache Disorders, Primary - etiology; Headache Disorders, Primary - pathology; Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy; Humans; Intracranial Aneurysm - complications; Intracranial Aneurysm - diagnostic imaging; Intracranial Aneurysm - pathology; Magnetic Resonance Angiography; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes); Neurology; secondary headache; Seizures - etiology; Treatment Outcome; Vascular diseases and vascular malformations of the nervous system; Headache; Nervous system diseases; carotid aneurysm; headache associated with sexual activity; Aneurysm; Cardiovascular disease; Cerebral disorder; secondary headache; Vascular disease; Pain; Carotid; Central nervous system disease; Neurological disorder; Cerebrovascular disease
• ISSN: 0017-8748; 1526-4610
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2009.01479.x

We report the case of a 48‐year‐old woman whose recurrent coital headache ceased following intracranial internal carotid artery aneurysm embolization.