Table 1 Demographic and clinical features of nine BREF patients
From: Epicrania fugax with backward radiation: clinical characteristics of nine new cases
Patient no. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sex (M/F) | F | M | F | M | M | F | F | M | F |
Age (years) | 65 | 46 | 39 | 52 | 58 | 28 | 53 | 33 | 29 |
Age at onset | 62 | 39 | 39 | 52 | 58 | 26 | 53 | 33 | 29 |
Other headaches | No | Migraine | Migraine | Tensión-type | Migraine | No | No | No | Migraine |
Interictal Pain | No | No | No | No | No | Circumscribed | Circumscribed | No | No |
Pain paroxysms | |||||||||
Head side | Left | Right | Left | Left | Right | Left | Right | Right | Left |
Site of origin | Eye | Forehead | Eye | Eye | Eye | Frontal | Frontal | Frontal | Eye |
Site of end | Occipital | Occipital | Occipital | Occipital | Parietal | Parietal | Occipital | Occipital | Occipital |
Trajectory | Linear | Linear | Linear | Linear | Linear | Linear | Linear | Linear | Linear |
Character | Stabbing | Stabbing | Burning | Stabbing | Pressing | Stabbing | Electric | Stabbing | Stabbing |
Duration (sec) | 5 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 5 |
Intensity (VAS) | 6 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 5 |
Accompaniments | No | No | No | No | Tearing itching eye | Rhinorrhoea itching eye | No | No | Itching eye |
Triggers | No | No | No | No | Physical activity | Touch | No | No | No |
Frequency | 8/day | 1–2/week | 1/week | 1/day | 1/day | 20/day | 20/day | 12/day | 1/day |
Temporal pattern | Chronic | Remitting | Remitting | Chronic | Remitting | Chronic | Chronic | Chronic | Chronic |
Therapy | Amitriptyline | No | No | Amitriptyline | Gabapentin | Lamotrigine | Carbamazepine | Gabapentine | Gabapentine |
Response | Complete | Complete | No | Complete | Complete | Partial | Partial | ||