Pearls & Oy-sters: A Journey Through Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome: Sex, Drugs, and Headaches

Abstract

Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS) is characterized by thunderclap headache and reversible constriction of intracranial arteries; it may present with immediate or delayed neurologic deficits related to brain edema, ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, or seizure.