Headache and Chiari Type I Malformation

Delirium, headache, and the type I Arnold-Chiari malformation.

Acute delirium can occur in a variety of states including migraine, l head trauma,2 nonconvulsive status epilepticus,3 and cerebral infarction.4 Acute delirium accompanied by migrainous headache is much more common in children than adults and is termed acute confusional migraine.s In 1883 John Cleland, a British poet and anatomist, first described the abnormality of the brainstem and cerebellum...

Chiari Malformation Type I Presenting as Cluster-like Headache.

PURPOSE Although different types of headache have been described in Chiari malformation type I, reports of cluster-like headaches are rare. CASE REPORT We report a 26-year-old man who presented with a two-week history of excruciating headache in the right temporal region after coughing, which was accompanied by autonomic features including right-sided nasal congestion and tearing from his rig...

Chiari I malformation and neurofibromatosis type 1.

Single case reports exist in the medical literature of patients with tonsillar ectopia, i.e., the Chiari I malformation and neurofibromatosis type 1. However, large series of patients with either of these entities have not been examined for the presence of both defects. We have retrospectively examined two large groups of pediatric patients: Group I, with the primary diagnosis of Chiari I malfo...

Cluster-Like Headache Associated with Symptomatic Chiari Type 1 Malformation.

Cluster headache (CH) is considered as a primary headache syndrome, thus neuroradiological investigations of the central nervous system should be normal in primary CH patients (1). However, symptomatic cluster-like headaches (CLH) have been reported in association with various disorders such as aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, cervical trauma, medullary infarcts, inflammatory/infectious ...

Pearls & Oy-sters: cough headache secondary to Chiari malformation type I.