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Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4:00028
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Migraine-like headache as the presenting symptom of basilar artery occlusion
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 -
Neuropsychologic phenotypes in familial hemiplegic migraine
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 -
Electromyographical ischemic test, clinical symptoms related to neuromuscular hyperexcitability, and intra- and extracellular Mg++ levels in headache patients
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 -
Pharmacological analysis of red-wine-induced migrainous headaches
We describe a series of experiments designed to investigate the mechanisms by which headaches can be triggered by red wine in a small minority of migraine patients. Some red wines are particularly potent rele...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4:00023 -
Clinical considerations preliminary to application of the Italian Society for the Study of Headache's guidelines regarding migraine prophylactic treatment
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 -
Exciting excitable brains: an update on migraine pathophysiology
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 The vascular theory has been superseded by recognition that neurovasc...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 -
Chronic daily headache: how to manage it?
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 -
Discrepancies between European countries and USA and Canada in the availability of triptans and in their licensed clinical properties
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 -
Analgesic therapy for headache: consumption, appropriateness and costs
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 -
The prevalence of adult migraine in Calabria Region and its relationships with major sociodemographic characteristics and socio-economic impact of headache
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 -
World Headache Alliance: raising headache awareness worldwide
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 -
Reducing the costs of headache: an Italian approach
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-care systems for headache: patching the seam between primary and specialist care
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 -
Price differentials of oral triptans in eight European Union countries
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 -
Evaluating the economic costs of migraine: interest of a comparative approach
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
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 -
General disease costing principles
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 -
Burden of headache in Africa
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 -
Disability and migraine: recent outcomes using an Italian version of MIDAS
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 -
The impact of headache on quality of life
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 -
Fixed and dynamic health-related quality of life measurements
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 -
Can we objectively measure the human cost of disease?
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 -
Comorbidities of migraine: a user-friendly overview
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 -
Epidemiology of migraine
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 -
Migraine and disability: WHO's work to measure functioning, disability and health and the Global Burden of Diseases Study
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 -
The global burden of migraine
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 -
The global impact of migraine
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2003 4(Suppl 1):00000 -
The distance learning on headache disorders and pain
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00035 -
A patient with SUNCT syndrome responsive to sodium valproate
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 -
Family ecology in children with primary headache
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 and SPECT
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 -
Greater occipital nerve blockade in migraine, tension-type headache and cervicogenic headache
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 -
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with chronic daily headache: relationship with nerve growth factor and glutamate levels
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 -
Grading of headache intensity. A proposal
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 -
The unfinished war
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00028 -
Pharmacovigilance on drugs for headache and pain
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00027 -
Cluster headache with aura
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 associated with transient or permanent cerebrovascular disease
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 -
Physical therapy and adjunctive botulinum toxin type A in the treatment of cervical headache: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study
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 -
Headache-related work disability in young men
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 -
A double-blind crossover comparison of the effects of vigabatrin with placebo in the prevention of migraine headache
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-like headache: literature review
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 -
Strategies of care for acute treatment of migraine
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 -
Towards a Pain-free Hospital: a project to improve the approach to the patient in pain
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2002 3:00019 -
The Italian Society for the Study of Headaches Announces The International Enrico Greppi Award 2002
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2001 2:10020102.10194 -
Quality of life
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2001 2:10020101.10194 -
Letter
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2001 2:10020100.10194 -
Gabapentin in the treatment of migraine and epilepsy comorbid with mood and anxiety disorders
This open prospective study assessed the use of gabapentin in migraine and epilepsy comorbid with mood and anxiety disorders. After a 4-week baseline period, gabapentin was used as adjunctive treatment in 14 ...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2001 2:10020083.10194 -
Efficacy of intravenous magnesium sulfate in severe migraine attacks
The aim of this open study was to make a preliminary estimate of the efficacy and tolerability of intravenously administered magnesium sulfate (1 g) in comparison to subcutaneously administered sumatriptan in...
Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2001 2:10020079.10194
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