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Unusual headaches
Headaches presented with unusual manner like cough, exertion, and sex, poses a diagnostic challenge in the emergency room or primary care provider's office. The majority of these patients have no underlying intracranial pathologic condition and have a good prognosis. Since the pathophysiology is poorly understood, treatment choices are limited. Further research is needed to elucidate the pathop...
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The syndrome of low-pressure CSF headaches was first recognized following diagnostic lumbar puncture. In the 1940s and 50s, Woltman in the United States ( [1] ) and Schaltenbrand in Germany ( [2] ) described "spontaneous" posture-related low-pressure headaches that did not develop after lumbar puncture. In spontaneous CSF leaks, there is sometimes a history of strenuous activity or tr...
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article identifies the pertinent historical issues that lead to the identification of those headaches needing additional testing to exclude a serious underlying cause. RECENT FINDINGS Recurrences of giant cell arteritis, even after presumed successful treatment, are common. Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is an often unrecognized cause of headache. SUMMARY P...
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The abrupt onset of severe headache, unlike any experienced before, can be a terrifying experience, and most often requires urgent medical attention. Although many times no cause is found, the first worst headache can be the signal of something very serious. Thunderclap headaches are severe headaches coming on full force in less than a minute, lasting at least 5 minutes, and often appearing wit...
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Maria Joana Osorio, MD Poonam Bhatia, MD Giulio Zuccoli, MD Deborah Holder, MD SECTION 1 A 14-year-old girl presented to the neurology clinic complaining of headaches. She described her headaches as mild (intensity 3/10), holocranial, and pounding in character. There was no nausea or vomiting, or photophobia or phonophobia. The patient described in detail a sequence of symptoms from the onset o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1921
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-192105000-00028