From: Cardiac cephalalgia: a narrative review and ICHD-3 criteria evaluation
10.6 Cardiac Cephalalgia |
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A. Any headache fulfilling criterion C |
B. Acute myocardial ischaemia has been demonstrated |
C. Evidence of causation demonstrated by at least two of the following: |
1. headache has developed in temporal relation to the onset of acute myocardial ischaemia |
2. Either or both of the following: |
a) headache has significantly worsened in parallel with worsening of the myocardial ischaemia |
b) headache has significantly improved or resolved in parallel with improvement in or resolution of the myocardial ischaemia |
3. headache has at least two of the following four characteristics: |
a) moderate to severe intensity |
b) accompanied by nausea |
c) not accompanied by photophobia or phonophobia |
d) aggravated by exertion |
4. headache is relieved by nitroglycerine or derivatives of it |
D. Not better accounted for by another ICHD-3 diagnosis |