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Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2014 3:30100054
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Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2014 3:30100054
We describe a patient with a variant of idiopathic stabbing headache (ISH). This case differs from ISH by its temporal profile (status-like), its region (extratrigeminal), its lack of association with other ty...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2014 3:30100049
Research has shown that inhalation of pure oxygen is effective in aborting cluster headache. This article advances the hypothesis that cooling is the critical ingredient behind the effectiveness of oxygen inha...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2014 3:30100033
Idiopathic stabbing headache is a not well known type of pain, and few reports have described the disorder in juvenile age. We report a sample of 30 juvenile patients with clinical features of stabbing headach...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2014 3:30100021
Migraine is a common neurological condition affecting yearly 1%–10% of all men and 3%–20% of all women. Focal neurological symptoms (auras), most commonly visual and sensory, occur in 4% of migraine attacks. M...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2014 3:30100015
Our knowledge of the nervous control of cerebral circulation has increased by the use of denervations and retrograde tracing in combination with immunohistochemical techniques. We have demonstrated that cerebr...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2014 3:30100007
In recent years, we have seen exciting advances in the knowledge of mechanisms that underlie migraine. These have thus promoted investigations into new drugs for the management of acute migraine. The major go...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2014 3:30100001
If migraine or a migrainelike headache and stroke occur together, it is difficult to determine whether migraine is the cause of the stroke or stroke is the cause of symptomatic migraine. We report the case of...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4:00026
Familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM) is a rare autosomal dominant-type migraine with aura. Attacks are characterised by hemiparesis in addition to other aura and migraine symptoms. Few studies have examined the...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4:00025
We observed the occurrence of neuromuscular hyperexcitability, assessed with electromyographic ischemic tests, in headache patients in relation to Mg++ levels in serum, red blood cells and mononuclear cells. Cli...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4:00024
The main goals of prophylactic treatment for migraine are to decrease headache attack frequency, length and intensity, to improve the efficacy of symptomatic drugs, to reduce their need, and to prevent pain c...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4:00022
This last decade has seen remarkable progress made towards unraveling the mystery of primary headache disorders like migraine and cluster. The vascular theory has been superseded by recognition that neurovasc...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4:00021
The role of daily analgesic use (also called abuse) in chronic daily headache (CDH) for the maintenance of chronic headache is discussed. The comprehension of the underlying mechanisms of actions is lacking m...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4:00020
Triptans are presently a milestone in the treatment of migraine patients. Because of their effectiveness and safety, they have radically improved migraine treatment but their use has meant a substantial incre...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00019
Headache represents not only an individual disease, but also an important pathology for society because its prevalence in the population is about 50.0%. Its physical, emotional, social and economic impacts ar...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00018
Although headache is a common complaint, only few sufferers seek specific medical assistance. Migraine is one of the most frequently encountered varieties of headache. The first presentation of migraine is im...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00017
The World Headache Alliance (WHA) works to reduce the burden of headache worldwide. Headache disorders are real, common and affect people of all ages, everywhere in the world. To reduce the burden resulting f...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00016
Headache is the most frequent reason for neurological consultation, but also a comorbidity often encountered by GPs. The costs of headache are considerable: direct and indirect costs contribute to varying deg...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00015
Health services are rarely highly successful in meeting the needs of people with headache disorders, who everywhere are low in the priority queue. Taking the UK as an example within Europe, this paper briefly...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00014
Triptans are presently a milestone in the treatment of migraine patients. Because of their effectiveness and safety, they have radically improved migraine treatment but their use has meant a substantial incre...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00013
The major aim of the paper is to give an epidemiologist's viewpoint on several points related to the evaluation of the costs of migraine and to answer some questions that are important if one wishes to decrea...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00012
The EuroMedicines Project created a single drug directory at a single time point (late 1998) to cover most of the member states of the European Union (EU) and some of the candidate states, so as to aid drug r...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00011
The term “disease costing” applies to those economic appraisal methodologies that ascertain the cost borne by a community because of a disease. This approach has been used to calculate the social and economic...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00010
Information on the prevalence and health burden of headache in Africa is scanty. Earlier studies in the 1970s suggested that migraine was a rare condition in the African. This may have been due to an underdia...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00009
Migraine is associated with functional impairment. The migraine disability assessment (MIDAS) questionnaire is a scientific instrument which captures headache-related disability. The Italian version of MIDAS ...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00008
Population-based studies have shown that migraineurs have reduced HRQoL independent of depression. Furthermore, HRQoL is reduced with increasing migraine attack frequency. In both population-based and clinic-...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00007
Measuring population health is important to evaluate the impact of interventions, to monitor the changes in health status, and to predict the need for health care. A number of tools have been developed to mea...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00006
Economic evaluation of health care programs or technologies requires distinguishing three types of costs: direct, indirect and human. The first two types do not imply peculiar methodological issues to quantif...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00005
Comorbidity of migraine is important from a number of different perspectives. Co-occurrence of different diseases may complicate diagnosis as a high degree of symptomatic overlap may occur among conditions as...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00004
One-year migraine prevalence rates in the general population for Western countries vary from 4% to 9% in men and from 11% to 25% in women. Non-Western countries report lower figures. Incidence rates for peopl...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00003
This paper briefly describes some of the work developed by the World Health Organization in the field of health, disability and burden of diseases and how this work has relevant implications for migraine and,...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00002
Migraine is a highly prevalent headache disorder that has a substantial impact on the individual and on society. Over the past decade, substantial advances in research have increased understanding of the path...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00001
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00000
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00035
SUNCT syndrome (shortlasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing) is a rare, debilitating headache that is difficult to be treated. We describe a SUNCT patient, in...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00034
The focus of this paper is the family factors associated with primary headache in children between 8 and 14 years. We studied the differences in the family ecology between 32 children with headaches and 32 he...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00033
Menstrual migraine (MM) pathogenesis has not yet been clarified, even though several hypotheses have been formulated. In the present research, we investigated cerebral blood flow in 15 patients with MM. Brain...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00032
The blockade of the greater occipital nerve (GON) has been used in the treatment of migraine without aura (MWOA), tension-type headache (TTH) and cervicogenic headache (CH). There have been only a few reports...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00031
Little has been done to investigate the biochemical basis of chronic daily headache (CDH). Our group has recently demonstrated an increase in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of nerve growth factor (NGF) ...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00030
Current severity (intensity) grading in headache is based upon a 4-grade category scale that includes the zero grade. For ordinary scientific and practical work, a low-sensitivity scale may suffice. However, ...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00029
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00028
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00027
The objective of our study is to report the frequency and characteristics of cluster headache with aura among the population of patients with cluster headache treated in our outpatient neurology clinic. 254 p...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00026
Headache is a common symptom in stroke, however the frequency, location, duration and other characteristics of the patients who developed headache during stroke are difficult to define. We studied headache ch...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00025
We examined the efficacy of physical therapy and adjunctive botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) injections in the treatment of cervical headache. We performed a doubleblind, randomised, placebo-controlled study ov...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00024
Based on the knowledge that migraine and tension-type headache (TTH) are associated with reduced effectiveness at work and impairment of function in social roles, we studied the different influences that thes...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00023
Twenty-three patients, aged 18‐66 years and suffering from migraine with or without aura, were randomly selected to receive either vigabatrin or matched placebo tablets first for 12 weeks in a double-blind cr...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00022
Cluster headache (CH) is the most frequent primary trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia (Goadsby, 2001). Clinical symptoms have been clearly identified and are described in the IHS classification. Cluster-like he...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00021
The clinical questions posed by the advent of acute migraine-specific treatment (triptans) are on which patient to use specific treatment for migraine, and when in the attack to treat patients. Three strategi...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00020
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00019
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