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Dopa responsive headache: Restless head syndrome or a cephalic variant of restless legs syndrome?

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common but highly undiagnosed sensorimotor disorder. It typically affects the lower extremities. However, various other parts of the body can be involved, such as the arms, the abdomen, the face, the oral cavity, head-neck, and the genital area. In addition, RLS is...

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Autores principales: Prakash, Sanjay, Prakash, Anurag
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33110877
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_640_20
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description Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common but highly undiagnosed sensorimotor disorder. It typically affects the lower extremities. However, various other parts of the body can be involved, such as the arms, the abdomen, the face, the oral cavity, head-neck, and the genital area. In addition, RLS is linked with a large number of comorbid conditions, including various headache disorders. Herein we are reporting two cases of RLS who also had headaches. The headaches fulfilled the criteria of chronic tension-type headache (CTTH). The administration of levodopa provided improvement in both RLS and CTTH. We suggest that that headache in a subset of patients with RLS may be the part of RLS symptoms complex.
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spelling pubmed-75865882020-10-26 Dopa responsive headache: Restless head syndrome or a cephalic variant of restless legs syndrome? Prakash, Sanjay Prakash, Anurag J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common but highly undiagnosed sensorimotor disorder. It typically affects the lower extremities. However, various other parts of the body can be involved, such as the arms, the abdomen, the face, the oral cavity, head-neck, and the genital area. In addition, RLS is linked with a large number of comorbid conditions, including various headache disorders. Herein we are reporting two cases of RLS who also had headaches. The headaches fulfilled the criteria of chronic tension-type headache (CTTH). The administration of levodopa provided improvement in both RLS and CTTH. We suggest that that headache in a subset of patients with RLS may be the part of RLS symptoms complex. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7586588/ /pubmed/33110877 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_640_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Dopa responsive headache: Restless head syndrome or a cephalic variant of restless legs syndrome?
title_full Dopa responsive headache: Restless head syndrome or a cephalic variant of restless legs syndrome?
title_fullStr Dopa responsive headache: Restless head syndrome or a cephalic variant of restless legs syndrome?
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title_short Dopa responsive headache: Restless head syndrome or a cephalic variant of restless legs syndrome?
title_sort dopa responsive headache: restless head syndrome or a cephalic variant of restless legs syndrome?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33110877
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_640_20
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