Migraine : manifestations, pathogenesis, and management /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
F.A. Davis,
[1995]
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| Series: | Contemporary neurology series ;
42. |
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Table of Contents:
- Epidemiology of migraine
- Definition of migraine
- Demographic characteristics
- Migraine in children
- Genetic and familial factors
- Migraine personality
- Psychological factors
- Headache: initiators, precipitators and triggers
- Psychosocial stress
- Dietary factors
- Hunger and hypoglycemia
- Sleep
- Fatigue and exertion
- Medications and drugs
- Physical and environmental factors
- Hormonal fluctuations
- Allergy
- Viral/immunologic disorders
- Head trauma
- Disorders of the neck
- Associated medical conditions
- Clinical manifestations of migraine
- Common and classic migraine (migraine without aura and migraine with aura)
- Pattern of migraine attacks
- Premonitory symptoms (prodromes)
- Migrainous auras
- Migrainous head pain
- Associated symptoms
- Termination of migraine attacks (postdromic state)
- Complicated migraine
- Migraine equivalents
- Chronic daily headache syndrome
- Status migrainosus
- Migraine and epilepsy
- Possible migraine syndromes
- Examination and investigation of the migraineur
- Migraine history
- Clinical examination of the patient with migraine
- Imaging procedures
- Electrophysiologic studies
- Other diagnostic tests
- Differential diagnosis
- Tension-type headaches
- Disorders of the neck, cranial and extracranial structures
- Cluster headaches
- Unruptured arteriovenous malformations and migrainous auras
- Headaches associated with head trauma
- Giant cell arteritis
- Benign intracranial hypertension
- Low cerebrospinal fluid pressure
- Hypertension
- Expanding intracranial lesions
- Headaches as emergencies
- Pathophysiology of migraine
- Vascular changes and the aura
- Cerebral blood flow
- Interictal cerebral blood flow
- Changes in cerebral blood flow during the aura
- Spreading oligemia during attacks of migraine with aura
- Spreading depression
- Ischemia and vasospasm
- Control of cerebral circulation
- Head pain and associated symptoms
- Locus of migraine pain
- Afferent trigeminal and cervical systems
- Two theories of the source of migrainous head pain
- Cerebral blood flow during migrainous head pain
- Neurogenic inflammation and vascular pain
- Activation of the trigeminovascular system
- Endogenous antinociceptive systems
- Prodromes
- Nausea and vomiting
- Photophobia
- Serotonin hypothesis and other theories
- Serotonin and the initiation of migraine attacks
- Dopamine and migraine
- Sympathetic dysfunction theory
- Arteriovenous anastomoses
- Treatment of patients with migraine
- Trigger factors and nonpharmacologic approaches
- Avoidance of trigger factors
- Nonpharmacologic strategies
- Exercise
- Physical therapy
- Ophthalmologic treatment
- Acupuncture
- Treatment of the acute attack
- Simple antipyretic analgesics
- Analgesic-sedative combination drugs
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- Isometheptene mucate
- Antiemetics
- Ergotamine
- Dihydroergotamine
- Narcotics
- Sumatriptan
- Corticosteroids
- Other medications
- Emergency room treatment
- Mechanisms of action of medication used for acute migraine attacks
- Prophylactic medication
- †-adrenoceptor blocking agents
- Calcium channel blockers
- Antideppressants
- Methysergide
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- Cyproheptadine
- Pizotifen
- Lithium
- Valproic acid
- Miscellaneous agents
- Mechanisms of action of prophylactic medications
- Special situations
- Drug-induced headache
- Status migrainosus
- Treatment of migraine in children
- Treatment of menstrual migraine
- Pregnant and postpartum migraineur
- Postmenopausal migraineur
- Migraine in the elderly