Noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation as acute therapy for migraine. The randomized PRESTO study [PDF]
, 2018 Objective: To evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS; gammaCore; electroCore, LLC, Basking Ridge, NJ) for the acute treatment of migraine in a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled ...
Ambrosini, Anna +12 more
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Assessment of acute headache in adults - what the general physician needs to know. [PDF]
, 2018 Headache is common. Up to 5% of attendances to emergency departments and acute medical units are due to headache. Headache is classified as either primary (eg migraine, cluster headache) or secondary to another cause (eg meningitis, subarachnoid ...
Agrawal +9 more
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Overview of diagnosis and management of paediatric headache. Part I: diagnosis [PDF]
, 2011 Headache is the most common somatic complaint in children and adolescents. The evaluation should include detailed history of children and adolescents completed by detailed general and neurological examinations.
Aynur Özge +5 more
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The Yekaterinburg headache initiative: an interventional project, within the Global Campaign against Headache, to reduce the burden of headache in Russia. [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: As major causes of global public ill-health and disability, headache disorders are paradoxically ignored in health policy and in planning, resourcing and implementing health services. This is true worldwide.
Lebedeva, ER +5 more
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New players in the preventive treatment of migraine. [PDF]
, 2015 Migraine is a common, chronic disorder of the brain causing much disability, as well as personal, familial and societal impact. Several oral preventive agents are available in different countries for the prevention of migraine, but none have performed ...
Mitsikostas, Dimos D, Rapoport, Alan M
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Will Memantine Exacerbate Seizures in People With Epilepsy? A Prospective Cohort Study
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate whether add‐on memantine would exacerbate seizures in people with epilepsy. Methods This was a prospective cohort study. People with epilepsy diagnosed with cognitive impairment were consecutively invited. Those who agreed were followed up for at least 24 weeks.
Peiyu Wang +7 more
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Gastrointestinal Headache; a Narrative Review
Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018 There are studies reporting primary headaches to be associated with gastrointestinal disorders, and some report resolution of headache following the treatment of the associated gastrointestinal disorder.
Majid Noghani +4 more
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The Value of Cranial CT Imaging in Patients With Headache at the Emergency Department
Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 Background: Headache is among the most prevalent complaints in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED). Clinicians are faced with the difficult task to differentiate primary (benign) from secondary headache disorders, since no international ...
Cynthia M. C. Lemmens +2 more
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Role of brain perfusion SPECT with 99mTc HMPAO in the assessment of response to drug therapy in patients with autoimmune vasculitis: a prospective study [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of vasculitis in the brain remains a quite difficult achievement. To the best of our knowledge, there is no imaging method reported in literature which is capable of reaching to a diagnosis of vasculitis with very high ...
Anna Margherita Maffione, 2 +11 more
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Functional Imaging in Primary Headache Disorders [PDF]
Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 2008 Over the past two decades, the development of new functional neuroimaging techniques has improved our understanding of the brain events underlying several primary headache disorders. In migraine and cluster headache, the advent of these techniques has shifted the emphasis in pathophysiological research away from the vessel and back to the brain.
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