Postoperative hemicrania continua-like headache - a case series

BACKGROUND: Hemicrania continua (HC) is a rare chronic headache disorder, typically accompanied by cranial autonomic features and responding to therapeutic doses of indomethacin. The pathophysiology of hemicrania continua is not fully understood. FINDINGS: We report a series of three patients who de...

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Autores principales: Gantenbein, Andreas R, Sarikaya, Hakan, Riederer, Franz, Goadsby, Peter J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Milan 2015
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25968100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s10194-015-0526-4
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author Gantenbein, Andreas R
Sarikaya, Hakan
Riederer, Franz
Goadsby, Peter J
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description BACKGROUND: Hemicrania continua (HC) is a rare chronic headache disorder, typically accompanied by cranial autonomic features and responding to therapeutic doses of indomethacin. The pathophysiology of hemicrania continua is not fully understood. FINDINGS: We report a series of three patients who developed a continuous hemicranial headache after cranial surgery. Each case presented a similar phenotype of continuous half-sided headache, cranial autonomic symptoms with exacerbations (2/3), and a response to indomethacin. CONCLUSION: The biology of hemicrania continua may be activated post-craniotomy just as can be seen with other primary headache disorders.
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spelling pubmed-44291102015-05-19 Postoperative hemicrania continua-like headache - a case series Gantenbein, Andreas R Sarikaya, Hakan Riederer, Franz Goadsby, Peter J J Headache Pain Short Report BACKGROUND: Hemicrania continua (HC) is a rare chronic headache disorder, typically accompanied by cranial autonomic features and responding to therapeutic doses of indomethacin. The pathophysiology of hemicrania continua is not fully understood. FINDINGS: We report a series of three patients who developed a continuous hemicranial headache after cranial surgery. Each case presented a similar phenotype of continuous half-sided headache, cranial autonomic symptoms with exacerbations (2/3), and a response to indomethacin. CONCLUSION: The biology of hemicrania continua may be activated post-craniotomy just as can be seen with other primary headache disorders. Springer Milan 2015-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4429110/ /pubmed/25968100 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s10194-015-0526-4 Text en © Gantenbein 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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