Hemicrania continua with contralateral cranial autonomic features: a case report

BACKGROUND: Hemicrania continua is characterized by continuous strictly unilateral head pain with episodic exacerbations. Episodic exacerbations are associated with ipsilateral cranial autonomic features. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a 24-year female with a 2-year history of continuous right-sided he...

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Autores principales: Prakash, Sanjay, Rathore, Chaturbhuj, Makwana, Prayag
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Milan 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4385230/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25902939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s10194-015-0508-6
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description BACKGROUND: Hemicrania continua is characterized by continuous strictly unilateral head pain with episodic exacerbations. Episodic exacerbations are associated with ipsilateral cranial autonomic features. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a 24-year female with a 2-year history of continuous right-sided headache with superimposed exacerbations. Episodic exacerbations were associated with marked agitation and contralateral cranial autonomic features. The patient showed a complete response to indomethacin within 8 hours. DISCUSSION: The dichotomy of pain and autonomic features is in accordance with the concept about the possibility of two separate pathways for pain and autonomic features in trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias.
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spelling pubmed-43852302015-04-07 Hemicrania continua with contralateral cranial autonomic features: a case report Prakash, Sanjay Rathore, Chaturbhuj Makwana, Prayag J Headache Pain Case Report BACKGROUND: Hemicrania continua is characterized by continuous strictly unilateral head pain with episodic exacerbations. Episodic exacerbations are associated with ipsilateral cranial autonomic features. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a 24-year female with a 2-year history of continuous right-sided headache with superimposed exacerbations. Episodic exacerbations were associated with marked agitation and contralateral cranial autonomic features. The patient showed a complete response to indomethacin within 8 hours. DISCUSSION: The dichotomy of pain and autonomic features is in accordance with the concept about the possibility of two separate pathways for pain and autonomic features in trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias. Springer Milan 2015-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4385230/ /pubmed/25902939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s10194-015-0508-6 Text en © Prakash et al.; licensee Springer. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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title_full Hemicrania continua with contralateral cranial autonomic features: a case report
title_fullStr Hemicrania continua with contralateral cranial autonomic features: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4385230/
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