Subclavian Steal Syndrome: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (E00-E90).

Cardiovascular system (I00-I99)

  • Hypertensive encephalopathy – hypertensive emergency characterized by an increase in intracranial (within the skull) pressure with consequent intracranial pressure signs.
  • Intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding within the skull; parenchymal, subarachnoid, sub- and epidural, and supra- and infratentorial hemorrhage)/intracerebral hemorrhage (ICB; cerebral hemorrhage), unspecified
  • Sinus vein thrombosis (SVT)-occlusion of a cerebral sinus (large venous blood vessels of the brain arising from duraduplications) by a thrombus (blood clot); clinical presentation: headache, congestive papules, and epileptic seizures
  • Subdural hematoma (SDH) – hematoma (bruise) between the dura mater and the arachnoid (spider membrane; middle meninges between the dura mater (hard meninges; outermost meninges) and the pia mater); clinical picture: uncharacteristic complaints such as a feeling of pressure in the head, cephalgia (headache), vertigo (dizziness), restriction or loss of orientation and concentration ability

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

  • Lyme disease – infectious disease transmissible by ticks.
  • Syphilis (Lues) – sexually transmitted infectious disease.

Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48)

  • Brain tumors, unspecified

Psyche – nervous system (F00-F99; G00-G99).

Environmental pollution – intoxications (poisoning).

  • Intoxications (poisonings), unspecified.