An increasing incidence and significance of chronic or recurrent headache (CRH) in children and adolescents is observed. Aim: To compare the distribution of CRH types in epidemiological and clinical studies. Material and methods: The epidemiological study included 1029 pupils aged 7-17yrs attending three different types of schools in the Plovdiv region. Inclusion criterion was at least two epis...

Sinus infections are much less common today than they were in the preantibiotic era, but they still are overdiagnosed. Acute sinusitis, a relatively uncommon cause of headache, is the result of infection of one or more of the cranial sinuses. Acute sinusitis usually is characterized by purulent discharge in the nasal passages and a pain profile determined by the site of infection. Sinusitis is ...

Although the understanding of the pathophysiology and the pharmacology of migraine has exploded there are still many pitfalls that may occur in the clinical assessment and management of migraine. This may prevent the patient from receiving optimal treatment. A diagnosis of migraine may be missed in the presence of other headache types that occur more frequently than migraine. Also, migraine may...

OBJECTIVE Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is increasingly being used as adjunctive treatment in primary headache syndromes in many countries. In the Turkish population, no epidemiologic data have been reported about awareness and usage of these treatments in patients with headache. METHODS One hundred and ten primary headache patients attending three headache clinics completed a ...

A study was carried out on headache after carotid endarterectomy. A specific type of headache, similar in its characteristics to "cluster headache", occurred on the operative side in 30% of 54 patients, whereas no such headache occurred after extra-intracranial bypass or peripheral vascular surgery. This postoperative headache was not spontaneously reported by 56% of patients unless they were s...

BACKGROUND/AIM Definition of menstrual migraine as a specific clinical entity or, maybe, migraine headache with menstrually related occurring, still remains unresolved question. The aim of this study was to investigate if perimenstrual headache in our patients fulfills diagnostic the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD) criteria for migraine without aura or represents a dif...

OBJECTIVE To determine the pattern of headache and its associated symptoms in school going children. METHODS The data of all the school going children attending the Headache Clinic in the Dept. of Neurology, Dhaka Medical College Hospital were retrospectively reviewed. A total of 1021 patients from October 1996 to September 2011 were selected. Data were collected through a predesigned questio...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Headaches (including migraines) and epilepsy have a high level of comorbidity and may be confused during diagnosis. Although physicians have known for centuries that these two conditions are somehow linked, their relationship remains poorly understood. Herein we describe the known associations between them, their underlying physiopathologic and genetic mechanisms, an...