Migraine is divided into two forms: migraine without aura, which accounts for around 70-80% of attacks, and migraine with aura, which accounts for around 20-30% of attacks [3]. The pain is mainly unilateral, although it can also occur bilaterally, moderate or severe intensity, it worsens with movement and is associated with nausea and/or vomiting, disturbance of light (photophobia), disturbance...

Migraine is amongst the oldest of diseases known to mankind. Migraine is a heterogenous entity, usually characterised by periodic attacks of headache on one or both sides of the head. These may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, increased sensitivity of the eyes to light (photophobia), increased sensitivity to sound (phonophobia), dizziness, blurred vision, cognitive disturbances, and other sy...

Retrospective studies have shown improvement in migraines after patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure. To date, no study has evaluated whether the completeness of closure affects headache status; therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of residual right-to-left shunt (RLS) on migraine symptoms after transcatheter PFO closure in migraineurs with and without aura. This was ...

It is often debated whether migraine with aura (MA) and migraine without aura (MO) are etiologically distinct disorders. A previous study using latent class analysis (LCA) in Australian twins showed no evidence for separate subtypes of MO and MA. The aim of the present study was to replicate these results in a population of Dutch twins and their parents, siblings and partners (N = 10,144). Late...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain and characterize the point prevalence of dizziness or vertigo in migraineurs presenting for routine appointments at a specialty headache clinic. BACKGROUND Migraine, dizziness, and vertigo are all common in the general population, affecting 13%, 20-30%, and 5-10% respectively. Thereby, chance concurrence of migraine with either dizziness or vertigo would be expected in ...

background: the sporadic type of hemiplegic migraine (hm) is sometimes observed among migrainous patients (mp) and mimics ischemic strokes. methods: in an evaluation of two-hundred consecutive adult mp in the mackenzie headache clinic, canada during 2004 , 9% of the patients met the criteria established by the international headache society for sporadic hm. female to male sex ratio, family hist...

background: in most of the studies, the association of vascular events is limited to migraine with aura or it is stronger in this group, whereas the link between migraine without aura (mo) and vascular events remained uncertain. therefore, we decided to evaluate endothelial function by chemical and functional markers of endothelium in mo and compare with normal population. methods: in this stud...

Investigators from Danish Headache Centre, Glostrup Hospital, and the University of Copenhagen investigated whether intracellular cyclic AMP accumulation induced migraine attacks among 14 migraine patients without aura.

Background: Menstrual Migraine (MM) is a subgroup of migraine headache that affect the quality of life of patients in menstrual age. Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA) is the most common cause of anemia, especially in women of reproductive age. Objectives: To determine the association of iron deficiency anemia with menstrual migraine. Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytic study was c...

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders which a physician might come across in his career life. On the other hand, migraine is common disorders in society chronic headache such as migraine in epileptic patients give ride to difficulties in seizure treatment due to altering the sleeping pattern and calmness disarrangement. Therefore, early diagnosis and suitable treatment in ep...