INTRODUCTION Peripheral nerve blocks have been used in primary headache treatment since a long time. In this study, we aimed to examine the efficiency of greater occipital nerve (GON) block in migraine prophylaxis. METHODS Data from migraine without aura patients who had GON block were collected and divided into two groups: Group PGON (n=25), which included patients who were under medical pro...

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, ...

Whitla was one of the outstanding graduates of the Queen's University of Ireland; he had both national and international reputations and was an intellectual giant amongst our predecessors, being a pharmacist, physician, politician, Shakespearian scholar, medical author and benefactor. Unlike other distinguished graduates, his contribution to Northern Ireland has continued to develop through his...

BACKGROUND Our aim is to assess the prevalence and characteristics of headache in patients with endometriosis compared with women without this disease. METHODS One hundred and thirty-three women with histologically proven endometriosis and 166 controls were interviewed by a neurologist experienced in headache diagnosis; the headache disorders were classified according to the 1988 Internationa...

BACKGROUND The correlation of metabolic syndrome and migraine headache was evaluated in some previous studies. However there is no study that compared the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the patients with and without migraine. Control of coincidental factors such as metabolic syndrome reduces therapeutic resistance in migrainous patients. The aim of this study was to compare prevalence of m...

OBJECTIVE To identify the frequency of typical (headache and dizziness) and common atypical (ear fullness, pressure, pain, tinnitus, facial fullness, and nasal congestion) migraine symptoms as chief complaints among patients presenting to otolaryngology clinic. METHODS This is a descriptive study of prospectively collected data from a general otolaryngology practice. Typical migraine presenta...

OBJECTIVES To investigate clinical features of a pediatric population presenting with headache to a pediatric emergency department (ED) and to identify headache characteristics which are more likely associated with serious, life-threatening conditions in distinction from headaches due to more benign processes. BACKGROUND Although headache is a common problem in children visiting a pediatric E...

a da}7, not necessarily after food, and he had dimness of vision in his right eye. The headache and vomiting though not so frequent as before remained persistent. About a fortnight ago he noticed tine tremors of his left thumb and index-finger, which gradually increased up to the time of admission. There was no history of syphilis or gonorrhoea. His complaints were, constant intense headache, w...

Atypical features of hemicrania continua (HC), including both visual aura and side shifting, have been reported previously. However, auras and variable unilaterality have never been reported together in HC. We report two patients with side-shifting HC with aura. These patients' symptoms are unilateral headaches, visual aura, autonomic features, throbbing pain, nausea and photo/phonophobia. One ...