background: migraine with aura (ma) has been identified as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. previous observation has also found higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in migraineurs without aura (mo), but the results have been conflicting. the present study was conducted to assess the association between cardiovascular risk factors and migraine without aura among iranians. me...

About 15% of migraine patients suffer from migraine with aura. Most patients have visual or sensory symptoms. The assumed mechanism of aura in humans is a phenomenon called spreading cortical depression (1,2). Cortical spreading depression is characterized by a short cortical neuronal excitation followed by long-lasting depression. Both excitation and depression travel across the cortex at a sl...

See related article, pages 3145–3151. The relation between migraine and stroke has been well recognized and has been the focus of several publications.1–3 Despite many hypotheses linking the 2 disorders, the precise mechanisms are unknown, and not surprisingly very complex. In this issue of Stroke, Pezzini and colleagues4 add to this complexity by suggesting that migraine with aura may “mediate...

Familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM) is a rare autosomal dominantly inherited subtype of migraine with aura. The clinical characteristics of FHM have been described previously in selected materials or case studies, but population-based studies are important in order to analyse the full spectrum of the disorder. The aim of the present study was to perform a systematic search for familial cases of ...

Magnesium sulphate has been used in the acute treatment of migraines; some studies found it to be a highly effective medication in the acute control of migraine pain and associated symptoms. This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study assesses the effect of magnesium sulphate on the pain and associated symptoms in patients with migraine without aura and migraine with aura. Sixty pat...

PURPOSE We present a rare case of late-onset migraine-like visual aura triggered by a large aneurysm in the left extracranial internal carotid artery. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of migraine-like visual aura triggered by an extracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) aneurysm. This is also the first case of migraine-like visual aura with probable thromboembolic trigger b...

Conflicting data on cognitive defects in migraine could be explained by differences in the clinical variables of the populations studied. We investigated 21 patients with migraine with aura and 24 with migraine without aura, diagnosed according to the International Headache Society criteria. The patients were submitted to a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests and grouped according...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Migraine with aura (MA) is considered as a risk factor for ischaemic stroke. The present observational retrospective study compares migraine patients admitted for a documented stroke with those presenting focal neurological symptoms and headache without a demonstrable lesion and in which the final diagnosis was a migraine attack with aura. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study...

Migraine aura without headache should be considered as a diagnosis in anyone who has recurrent episodes of transient symptoms, especially those that are visual or neurological or involve vertigo. Visual and neurological symptoms due to migraine are not unusual and most commonly occur in older persons with a history of migraine headaches. Migraine aura without headache should be diagnosed only w...

The question whether symptom-free migraine patients show cognitive impairments compared to matched control subjects is addressed, and also whether migraine patients show transient cognitive impairments induced by an attack. The Neuropsychological Evaluation System (NES2) was administered once in an interictal period and twice within 30 h after different migraine attacks. Since cognitive impairm...