Solve exciting clinical cases specific to your field of interest via Docplexus` clinical case challenge . In today's ‘ Neurology Case Challenge ’, join your fellow doctors to discuss and answer an interesting quiz. Patient History: An ambulance brings a 39-year-old woman complaining of a severe occipital headache and vomiting from her workplace to the emergency department (ED). The intensity of a headache did not diminish after taking 200 mg of ibuprofen.
She denies any head trauma, intense physical exertion, fever, changes in vision, photophobia, or any other associated symptoms (other than vomiting). She mentions that 2 days before presentation, she had a headache of similar intensity but it only lasted a few seconds before resolving spontaneously. She denies any prior surgeries, and her only medications are oral contraceptives, which she has taken for about 15 years. She denies…
