Migraine : manifestations, pathogenesis, and management /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davidoff, Robert A., 1934-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : F.A. Davis, [1995]
Series:Contemporary neurology series ; 42.
Subjects:
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