background: association between helicobacter pylori (hp) infection and migraine and the effect of hp eradication on relief of migraine headache have been studied but the results are controversial. objectives: to evaluate the effect of hp eradication in treatment of patients affected by migraine. materials and methods: eighty consecutive hp infected patients affected by migraine without aura wer...

Migraine is a neurovascular disorder that is characterized by unilateral, pulsatile headaches. Migraine due to its individual and social effects is known as a major cause of disability in the world. The main complication of this disease is chronification that is known as chronic migraine (CM). It seems that several factors contribute to migraine chronification such as age, female gender, obesit...

migraine is a neurologic disease, which often is associated with a unilateral headache. vestibular abnormalities are common in migraine. vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (vemps) assess otolith function in particular functional integrity of the saccule and the inferior vestibular nerve. we used vemp to evaluate if the migraine headache can affect vemp asymmetry parameters. a total of 25 pat...

OBJECTIVE To estimate whether migraine in mid-life is associated with mortality from cardiovascular disease, other causes, and all causes. DESIGN Population based cohort study. SETTING Reykjavik, Iceland. PARTICIPANTS 18,725 men and women, born 1907-35 and living in Reykjavik and adjacent communities. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Mortality from cardiovascular disease, non-cardiovascular diseas...

Neuhauser et al. 1 prospectively evaluated 200 patients from a dizziness clinic and 200 ones from a migraine clinic. Prevalence of migraine according to International Headache Society (IHS) II criteria was 38% in the dizziness clinic and 24% in sex and age matched controls (p < 0.01). Migrainous vertigo was present in 7% of patients of the dizziness clinic and in 9% of the ones in the migraine ...

Introduction: The aim of this review article was to analyze in details the mechanism drugs’ effects treatment and prevention a migraine attack, as well discuss hypotheses pathogenesis.&#x0D; Migraine attack agents: main agents for have an anti-nociceptive activity.&#x0D; Agents preventive treatment: β-blocker propranolol also has anti-serotonin analgesic activities, most drugs used prophylactic...

Recent reports have focused on a possible association between migraine and Menière's disease; patients suffering from Menière's disease present a higher rate of migraine. In some cases, the clinical features of migraine-associated vertigo may mimic the presentation of Menière's disease. The present report focuses on two cases of females with recurrent episodes of rotational vertigo, fluctuating...

introduction: cyclic vomiting syndrome (cvs) is characterized by recurrent episodes of intense nausea and vomiting interpreted with symptom free period. as data regarding the pattern of disease in our region is scarce, we performed this study to investigate the pattern of pediatric cyclic vomiting in shiraz, southern iran. methods and patients: this study was performed in nemazee hospital, terr...