BACKGROUND Under certain conditions, exertional headaches may reflect coronary ischemia. CASE REPORT A 44-year-old woman developed intermittent exercise-induced headaches with chest tightness over a period of 10 months. Cardiac catheterization followed by acetylcholine provocation demonstrated a right coronary artery spasm with chest tightness, headache, and ischemic effect of continuous elec...

Headache could be the only manifestation of a myocardial infarction or angina pectoris. The recognition of myocardial ischemia as the cause of headache is important in clinical practice. We report two cases of cardiac cephalalgia, defined as headache attributed to myocardial ischemia. The first patient presented with a thunderclap headache probably secondary to a myocardial ischemia and the sec...

BACKGROUND The "other primary headaches" encompasses a group of uncommon but distinct headache disorders. The coexistence of their subforms such as primary sexual and exercise headache is not a new phenomenon, but in association with cough headache is rather uncommon. Report of cases: We report three cases with a rare coexistence of primary cough, exercise and associated with sexual activity he...

*Consultant Cardiologist, **Associate Director and HOD, Department of Noninvasive Cardiology, Fortis Escots Heart Institute, New Delhi Received: 19.02.2013; Accepted: 17.09.2013 A 55 year old gentleman presented with complaints of exertional dyspnoea and ECG showing ‘deep T wave’ inversion in the precordial leads. Echocardiographic features (Figure 1) were characteristic of Endocardial Thickeni...

Rapid and efficient cooling is the most important therapeutic objective in patients with heat stroke (HS). This article reviews the mechanism of action and rationale for the use of dantrolene as a potential supportive cooling method in the treatment of HS. Relevant studies were included to support discussion of the role of dantrolene for the treatment of HS. In some studies dantrolene was shown...