A descriptive study was carried out to find out the clinical profile, and electroencephalographic (EEG) changes in children with migraine. Screening for urinary excretion of 5-hydroxy indole acetic acid (5-HIAA) was carried out. Fifty children suffering from migraine as per Prensky's criteria were recruited over a period of 1 year. Forty six children were suffering from common migraine and 4 ha...

Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) asymmetries were studied in controls and patients with common and classic/complicated migraine using 133Xe inhalation with 8 homologously situated external collimators over each cerebral hemisphere. Migraine patients as a group more frequently had posterior rCBF asymmetries than controls (p less than 0.03). Although there were no differences in the number of ...

Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) asymmetries were studied in controls and patients with common and classic/complicated migraine using Xe inhalation with 8 homologously situated external collimators over each cerebral hemisphere. Migraine patients as a group more frequently had posterior rCBF asymmetries than controls (p<0.03). Although there were no differences in the number of anterior rCBF...

A case of bilateral cilio-retinal artery occlusion in a patient with classic migraine is described. It is unlikely that this hitherto unreported occurrence represents altered tone in the dense adrenergic innervation to the posterior ciliary circulation. We advise the continued use of beta-adrenergic blockers as prophylaxis in ocular migraine.

Introduction Migraine is a common clinical problem characterized by episodic attacks of head pain and associated symptoms such as nausea, sensitivity to light, sound, or head movement. It is generally thought of as a headache problem, but it has become apparent in recent years that many patients suffer symptoms from migraine who do not have severe headaches as a dominant symptom. These patients...

A comparison of the elementary visual hallucinations of 50 patients with migraine and 20 patients with occipital epileptic seizures showed that epileptic seizures are predominantly multi-coloured with circular or spherical patterns as opposed to the predominantly black and white linear patterns of migraine. This simple clinical symptom of the elementary visual hallucinations may be helpful in d...

We report a young migraine sufferer who developed bilateral posterior cerebral artery territory infarcts during the course of his classic migraines, the second of which was associated with intraluminal clot in the posterior cerebral artery. To our knowledge, bilateral posterior cerebral artery stroke from spontaneous migraine has not been reported. Head computed tomographic, magnetic resonance ...

BACKGROUND Vertiginous migraine (VM) was formally recognized in 2001 as an episodic vertigo that may also exhibit other migrainous symptoms. Treatment strategies typically are based on those for classic migraine, either as abortive or prophylactic therapy, and remain based largely on expert opinion and retrospective studies. A 2015 Cochrane Collaboration review was unable to identify a single s...

In 1997, the authors described a large family with classic Menière's syndrome and migraine inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. Using a special questionnaire applicable to all the affected members of this family, the majority of respondents convincingly demonstrated true migraine preceding or after the Menière's attacks. Now we have used another questionnaire designed to describe the natur...