Iatrogenic migraine aura following transseptal catheterization has only rarely been reported in the literature. We report the case of a 60-year-old female who presented with new onset of migraine with visual aura 1 day after transseptal cryoballoon catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. The patient had a 5-year history of typical migraine without aura and had never experienced visual aura b...

Persistent migraine aura without infarction is a rare but well documented condition. According to the International Headache Society (HIS) criteria, this disturbance is defined by the persistence of a migraine aura for more than one week without radiographic evidence of infarction. Here we describe the case of an 11-year-old girl suffering from migraine without aura since the age of four. She e...

Migraine affects the cortical physiology and may induce dysfunction both ictally and interictally. Although visual symptoms predominate during aura, other contiguous cortical areas related to less impressive symptoms are also impaired in migraine. Answers from 72.2% migraine with aura and 48.6% of migraine without aura patients on human faces and objects recognition, colour perception, proper n...

BACKGROUND Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) study revealed reduced fractional anisotropy (FA) values in the corpus callosum (CC) in migraine patients without aura. Abnormalities in white matter integrity, particularly in the CC, may affect inter-hemispheric resting state functional connectivity (RSFC). Unfortunately, relatively little is known about the alterations in functional interactions betw...

Migraine affects mostly women during their reproductive years and is far more prevalent than many people realise. Within 1 year, over 15% of women and 6% of men have attacks of migraine with or without aura.1 Although migraine without aura accounts for the majority of migraine, particularly in women, the overall 1-year prevalence of migraine with aura is around 5% for women and 2% for men.1 Mig...

background: migraine with aura (ma) has been identified as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. previous observation has also found higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in migraineurs without aura (mo), but the results have been conflicting. the present study was conducted to assess the association between cardiovascular risk factors and migraine without aura among iranians. me...

BACKGROUND Migraine is a common disabling condition that affects approximately 15% of the population. Several genome-wide association studies have attempted to identify susceptibility variants involved in migraine, reporting several candidate loci for the disorder. METHODS In order to replicate findings from previous genome-wide association studies, a case-control association study was perfor...

BACKGROUND Spreading depression of Leao has been hypothesized as the basis for the visual aura of the migraine attack, supported by cerebral blood flow measurements of spreading hypoperfusion. The early depolarizing or activation phase of experimental spreading depression, however, is associated with a transient but pronounced cerebral blood flow increase that precedes spreading hypoperfusion. ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Migraine is a risk factor for clinical stroke and for subclinical white matter hyperintensities and infratentorial infarcts. These subclinical lesions are linked to small-vessel pathology. Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) are another biomarker of small-vessel disease but have not yet been studied in migraine. METHODS Identification of CMBs in 63 migraineurs (25 with aura/35 ...