Table 1 Epidemiological and clinical features of patients with parosysmal hemicrania
Parameters | (n-17) |
|---|---|
Age ( years)(mean, range) | 38 ± 12.3, 21–60 |
Sex (M:F) | 1:1.1 ( 8:9) |
Duration of illness | Â |
 Mean (SD) | 38.2 ± 38.1 months |
 Range | 3 months-10 yrs |
 Median | 18 months |
Laterality, n (%) | Â |
Rt | 8 (47) |
 Lt | 9 (53) |
 Course, n (%) |  |
 Chronic | 15 (88) |
 Episodic | 2 (12) |
Site of headache, n (%) | Â |
 Orbital\retroorbital | 15(88) |
 Temporal | 10 (59) |
 Frontal | 10 (59) |
 Parieto-occipital | 7 (41) |
 Infra- orbital /maxillary | 4 (24) |
 Peri auricular | 2 (12) |
 Neck | 2 (12) |
Character of pain | Â |
 Throbbing | 9 (53) |
 Non throbbing | 12 (71) |
 Both throbbing and non throbbing | 4 (24) |
 Severe or very severe | 15 (88) |
Interictal pain | Â |
 Present | 8 (47) |
 Intermittent | 7 (41) |
 Continuous | 1 (6) |
 Restlessness / agitation | 13 (76) |
Autonomic symptoms, n (%) | Â |
 Tearing | 13 (76) |
 Conjunctival injection | 11 (65) |
 Feeling of sand / itching in eye | 8 ( 47) |
 Nasal stuffiness | 7 (41) |
 Rhinorrhea | 7 (41) |
 Ptosis | 5 (29) |
 Lid edema | 3 (18) |
 Miosis | 1 (06) |
Migrainous symptoms, n (%) | Â |
 At least one migrainous symptom | 9 (53) |
 Nausea | 5 (29) |
 Vomiting | 1 (6) |
 Photophobia | 4 (24) |
 Phonophobia | 4 (24) |
Co morbid conditions | Â |
 Hypertension | 4(24) |
 Diabetes Mellitus | 3(18) |
 Restless Leg Syndrome | 1(6) |
Follow up duration (months) | Â |
 (mean,SD, range) | 12.5 ± 6.7, 3–24 |