Peer-reviewed medical journal articles on cluster headache and related conditions.
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- Cluster headache in women: Clinical characteristics and comparison with cluster headache in men May 1, 2001The clinical characteristics of cluster headache in women are very similar to those in men. Women develop the disorder at an earlier age of onset and experience more “migrainous symptoms” with cluster headache, especially vomiting. Both men and women have frequent photophobia and phonophobia with cluster headache attacks. These symptoms are not included in the ...
- Effect of grapefruit juice on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of verapamil enantiomers in healthy volunteers December 1, 2000The present study has demonstrated an interaction between verapamil and grapefruit juice, which is likely due to an inhibition of intestinal metabolism resulting in increased oral bioavailability.
- Cluster headache-like disorder in childhood August 17, 1999This paper reviews the diagnostic features of cluster headache-like disorder and describes its presentation in childhood. Case note summaries of patients with this condition are presented in the context of a brief summary of the literature. Four patients (two girls; aged 12 to 15 years) with cluster headache-like disorder were seen over a period of ...
- Cluster Headache Management With Methylphenidate (Ritalin) October 1, 1998he authors report rapid cluster headache relief in a 43-year-old man with a 5-year history of refractory cluster headache. The patient described complete headache relief within 10 minutes of taking 10 mg of methylphenidate (Ritalin) when used to abort the onset of his headaches.
- High dose intravenous methylprednisolone in cluster headache March 1, 1998Bouts of cluster headache may be resistant to all the drugs usually effective, such as typical migraine preventing drugs, lithium, carbamazepine, valproate, and corticosteroids. Corticosteroids have been commonly used in cycles of 10–15 intravenous daily infusions of 50–100 mg prednisone. During a severe bout in a patient resistant to all treatments, we have tried high ...
- Capsazepine: a competitive antagonist of the sensory neurone excitant capsaicin October 1, 1992Capsazepine is a synthetic analogue of the sensory neurone excitotoxin, capsaicin. The present study shows the capsazepine acts as a competitive antagonist of capsaicin.
- Treatment of Acute Cluster Headache with Sumatriptan — The Sumatriptan Cluster Headache Study Group August 1, 1991Attacks of cluster headache are difficult to treat. Sumatriptan, an agonist of 5-hydroxy-tryptamine1—like receptors, has proved effective in the treatment of migraine. The clinical similarities between migraine and cluster headache and positive results from an open pilot study in patients with cluster headache indicated that sumatriptan should be evaluated more rigorously in the treatment of ...
- Cluster headache: ultrastructural evidence for mast cell degranulation and interaction with nerve fibres in the human temporal artery October 1, 1990It has been suggested that histamine plays an important role in the pathogenesis of cluster headache. In addition, both neurogenic and vascular components have been described during cluster headache attacks without an obvious anatomical link between them. Our ultrastructural observations of human temporal arteries from cluster headache patients and their comparison to those from a control group strongly suggest ...
- Cluster Headache: Clinical Efficacy of Lithium Salts in a Haemodialysis Treated Patient June 1, 1985Authors: Zuddas, S Mulas, M Del Zompo, GU Corsini Source: Cephalalgia, Volume: 5 issue: 2, page(s): 95-98 Abstract Over the last ten years the efficacy of lithium salts in cluster headache has been well demonstrated. Our patient, who had been suffering from cluster headache for approximately 30 years, had been in haemodialysis treatment for the last ten years ...
- Lithium Carbonate in Cluster Headache: Assessment of Its Short- and Long-Term Therapeutic Efficacy March 1, 1983The short- and long-term effects of administration of lithium carbonate in cluster headache (CH) have been investigated. Of the 90 patients treated (78 males and 12 females), 68 had episodic CH and 22 had the chronic form of the disease. The doses used were almost always 900 mg/day. Eleven of the 22 patients with chronic ...