BACKGROUND Migraine is a very common neurological disorder. Treatment of acute attack of migraine is difficult. Non specific treatment includes various analgesic preparations having incomplete pain relieving effect with lot of side effects. Specific treatment for acute migraine attacks includes triptans and ergotamines. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of zolmitri...

Migraine is a disorder of multisensory integration somatosensory, visual, auditory, olfactory stimuli, which subsequently can lead to various combinations symptoms: headache, photophobia, phonophobia, nausea/vomiting, osmophobia.The purpose the study: To isolate characteristics pain phenomenon (frequency, duration, and severity migraine symptoms) in relation associated symptoms patients. Materi...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Many migraine patients develop nausea and/or vomiting (N/V) and are referred to gastroenterologists. This can lead to an inappropriate treatment and a delay of the correct diagnosis. We therefore aimed to identify predictors for migraine in patients presenting with N/V as well as headache. METHODS A total of 407 patients who were first diagnosed with migraine at Samsung Medica...

Daniel R. Gold, DO Stephen G. Reich, MD SECTION 1 A 55-year-old woman presented to the emergency department complaining of dizziness. Several hours earlier she abruptly felt “the room spinning and moving back and forth.” Simultaneously, she experienced nausea, vomiting, and gait unsteadiness. The dizziness exacerbated with head movement. She denied head or neck pain, photophobia, phonophobia, a...

background: sodium valproate (sv) has been approved for migraine prophylaxis and its intravenous form is used to treat acute migraine attacks. we compared the efficacy and safety of intravenous sv and subcutaneous sumatriptan in managing acute migraine attacks. methods: this double-blind randomized clinical trial divided 90 patients into two groups: one group received 400 mg of intravenous sv a...

Migraine is divided into two forms: migraine without aura, which accounts for around 70-80% of attacks, and migraine with aura, which accounts for around 20-30% of attacks [3]. The pain is mainly unilateral, although it can also occur bilaterally, moderate or severe intensity, it worsens with movement and is associated with nausea and/or vomiting, disturbance of light (photophobia), disturbance...

background and aim: the aim of this article was to critically discuss the clinical application of a cognitive behaviour therapy (cbt) protocol for the treatment of hyperacusis and its asso­ciated distress. methods: narrative review recent findings: reviewing the research lit­erature suggests that hyperacusis, anxiety and safety seeking behaviours may be linked. therefore, it seems reasonable to...

BACKGROUND Existing criteria for the diagnosis of headache do not indicate which clinical features are most important to establish or exclude primary headache diagnoses. OBJECTIVE To determine the value of history taking in the evaluation of patients with primary headache syndromes. METHODS A MEDLINE search of English-language studies published since 1966 and a hand search of bibliographies...