Headache Associated with Sexual Activity

Authors

  • Kleber Edson Kawagoe Residente de Neurologia da Escola Paulista de Medicina — UNIFESP.
  • Deusvenir de Souza Carvalho Professor-Adjunto e Chefe do Setor de Investigação eTratamento das Cefaleias da Disciplina de Neurologia da Escola Paulista de Medicina — UNIFESP.
  • Acary Souza Bulle Oliveira Chefe do Setor de Doenças Neuromusculares da Disciplina de Neurologia da Escola Paulista de Medicina — UNIFESP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34024/rnc.1999.v7.8964

Keywords:

Headache, sexual activity, vasospasm, subarachnoid hemorrhage

Abstract

Headache associated with sexual activity (HASA) can be divided into three types: a tension type, a vascular or migraine type, and a low cerebrospinal fluid pressure type. The migraine type commonly taken as subarachnoid hemorrhage should have a CT scan, lumbar puncture and cerebral angiogram. Cerebral vasospasm may occur associated to ruptured saccular aneurysm and other causes of intracranial bleeding. A reversible cerebral segmental vasocronstriction in a patient on clinical feature of headache associated to sexual activity is decribed.

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Published

1999-04-30

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (1999)

Section

Relato de Caso

How to Cite

1.
Kawagoe KE, Carvalho D de S, Oliveira ASB. Headache Associated with Sexual Activity. Rev Neurocienc [Internet]. 1999 Apr. 30 [cited 2025 Dec. 17];7(2):89-91. Available from: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/neurociencias/article/view/8964