Skip to main content
  • Meeting abstract
  • Open access
  • Published:

EHMTI-0069. The low prevalence of “forehead and facial flushing” and “sensation of fullness in the ear” in Japanese cluster headache patients

Background

New ICHD-3 beta criteria for cluster headache added two accompanying autonomic symptoms: “forehead and facial flushing” and “sensation of fullness in the ear”. Previous reports showed that several clinical features of cluster headache were different between Caucasian and East Asian.

Aim

We evaluated the presence of “forehead and facial flushing” and “sensation of fullness in the ear” in Japan.

Method

Subjects comprised 23 consecutive cluster headache patients who had been diagnosed with cluster headache according to ICHD-2 (14 males, 9 females; mean age, 41.4±13.8 years; range, 20-71 years). Information was collected by face to face interview.

Results

All patients were episodic cluster headache. Two patients (9%) had “forehead and facial flushing” and 4 patients (17%) had “sensation of fullness in the ear”. The patients with “forehead and facial flushing” had also “sensation of fullness in the ear”. The prevalence of “forehead and facial flushing” and “sensation of fullness in the ear” in our study were lower than that of previous Caucasian study (20.0% reported “forehead and facial flushing” and 33.3% “sensation of fullness in the ear”).

Conclusion

The low prevalence of “forehead and facial flushing” and “sensation of fullness in the ear” may be clinical characteristic in Japanese cluster headache patients.

No conflict of interest.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Imai, N. EHMTI-0069. The low prevalence of “forehead and facial flushing” and “sensation of fullness in the ear” in Japanese cluster headache patients. J Headache Pain 15 (Suppl 1), C24 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/1129-2377-15-S1-C24

Download citation

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1129-2377-15-S1-C24

Keywords