Neurology · Neurology / Headache medicine; Vascular neurology
Thunderclap headache syndrome
also: Thunderclap headache
Sudden severe headache peaking within one minute.
- Specialty
- Neurology
- Subspecialty
- Neurology / Headache medicine; Vascular neurology
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, more common; Children: yes, rare
- Gene(s) involved
- ATP1A2, CACNA1A, SCN1A
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Thunderclap headache
Etiology & mechanism
Subarachnoid hemorrhage, RCVS, dissection, CVT or primary.
Gene(s) involved (3)
Symptoms & signs (3)
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