how to cite this article: mirouliaie m, fallah r, partovee m, ordooei m. efficacy of levothyroxine in migraine headaches in children with subclinical hypothyroidism. iran j child neurol autumn 2012;6(4):23-26.   abstract objective hypothyroidism may be an exacerbating factor for  primary headaches and migraine is one of the most common primary headaches in childhood. thepurpose of this study wa...

BACKGROUND Stress, one of the most commonly identified triggers for primary headache in the workplace, usually leads to inefficient work during attacks. Stress-related primary headaches in the nursing staff of hospitals have received little attention. OBJECTIVE To realize the association between stress and headache, and the means of coping with this kind of headache. METHODS A cross-section...

Cluster headache (CH) is associated with the most severe pain of the primary headache disorders. Barriers to optimal care include misdiagnosis, diagnostic delay, undertreatment, and mismanagement. Medication-overuse headache (MOH) may further complicate CH and may present as increased CH frequency or development of a background headache, which may be featureless or have some migrainous quality....

Abstract Background Headache disorders are rated among the ten most disabling conditions around world. The primary headache more common that of secondary headache. third edition International Classification Disorders (ICHD-III) is considered as a helpful tool for classification and diagnosis different disorders. Methods This cross-sectional study included 500 patients who attended to clinic, be...

Our casistic of 1787 children with headache, is made up of 943 males (53%) and 844 females (47%) aged 3-14 years. 1724 had primary headache. To make a precise diagnosis of primary headache, all the children have been subjected to a rigorous anamnesis, physical and diagnostic examination (blood, urine test, head x-rays-scans, sight test with cat's eyes). Symptoms that frequently accompany headac...

INTRODUCTION New-onset headaches in the elderly are usually secondary and rarely primary. We present the case of an elderly man with recent-onset headache due to uremic hyperphosphatemia and hypocalcemia. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of its kind in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a 70-year-old Indian man with chronic kidney disease whose...

CONTEXT Cluster headache is an excruciatingly painful primary headache syndrome, with attacks of unilateral pain and cranial autonomic symptoms. The current licensed treatment for acute attacks is subcutaneous sumatriptan. OBJECTIVE To ascertain whether high-flow inhaled oxygen was superior to placebo in the acute treatment of cluster headache. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS A double-blind, ...

Tension type headache (TTH) is a primary headache disorder considered common in children and adolescents. It remains debatable whether TTH and migraine are separate biological entities. This review summarizes the most recent literature of TTH with regards to children and adolescents. Further studies of TTH are needed to develop a biologically based classification system that may be facilitated ...