PREVENTIVE TREATMENT.

Preventive treatment of migraine

Recibido: 09/07/08. Revisado: 11/07/08. Aceptado: 23/07/08. Ninan T. Mathew. director de la Clínica de Cefalea de Houston. Profesor de Neurología en la Escuela de Medicina Universidad de Texas Houston. Presidente de la Sociedad Internacional de Cefalea, de la sección de cefalea de la Academia Americana de Neurología y del Consejo Americano para educación en cefalea. Es autor de 200 publicacione...

Preventive treatment of migraine.

Migraine preventive therapy, even in the absence of a headache, is given in an attempt to reduce the frequency, duration, or severity of attacks. Circumstances that might warrant preventive treatment include disabling migraine attacks, the overuse of acute medications or failure of or contraindication to acute medications, troublesome side effects from medication, hemiplegic migraine, or very f...

Acute and preventive treatment of migraine.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Migraine remains underdiagnosed and undertreated despite advances in the understanding of its pathophysiology and management. This article focuses on acute and preventive treatment of migraine, including the mechanisms of action, dosing and side effects of medications, and strategies for the most effective care. RECENT FINDINGS Best practice suggests that acute migraine trea...

The Preventive Treatment of Infective Surgical Diseases

Intermittent preventive antimalarial treatment in infants.

Intermittent preventive antimalarial treatment in infants (IPTi) involves the administration of a curative dose of an an-timalarial drug to infants at the time of routine immunization, without determining whether the infant is parasitemic. This approach to the prevention of malaria in infants was tried first by Schellenberg et al. [1] in Ifakara, Tanzania, in 1999. They found that administratio...