Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache
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In order to minimize recall bias in burden estimation, questions about headache yesterday were included in a population-based survey initiated by LIFTING THE BURDEN : The Global Campaign against Headache. ⋯ Of the adult Chinese population, 1.8% have headache at any one time that is of moderate to severe intensity in 1.4%, and 1.3% lose the equivalent of a whole day to headache-attributed disability every day. In China this means 12.3 million people.
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Case Reports
Primary red ear syndrome associated with cochleo-vestibular symptomatology: a paediatric case report.
Red ear syndrome (RES), first described by Lance in 1996 in an adult series, may be primary or associated with headache syndromes, upper cervical disorders or vascular anomalies. Clinically the disease is characterised by recurrent episodes of reddening and burning pain in the auricle, usually elicited by different triggers. The prevalence of RES in the paediatric age group remains poorly understood. Several therapeutic approaches have been tried with heterogeneous clinical response. ⋯ The temporal and spatial association could suggest shared pathogenetic features between neurological (cochleo-vestibular) and vascular (red and burning ear) symptomatology, likely related to trigeminal autonomic reflex activation, although further studies are required for full comprehension of RES pathogenesis.
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Case Reports
Successful treatment of post-dural-puncture headache with surgical dura repair two years after spinal anesthesia.
Post-dural-puncture headache (PDPH) can be a highly disturbing complication of elective spinal anesthesia. The incidence of PDPH when small needles are used is estimated to be 0%-14.5%. PDPH usually resolves spontaneously within a few days, but there are rare cases that persist in spite of conventional and epidural blood patch therapy. ⋯ A neurosurgical procedure was performed, during which a dural leak was identified and repaired. The patient was immediately pain free after surgery and has remained so for the duration of follow-up (more than one year).
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The purpose of our study was to evaluate the effect of atrial septal defect (ASD) closure on migraine headache attacks (MHA). ⋯ These results indicate that Amplatzer device implantation can act as a permanent trigger of MHA in not a few patients, and that age may be an important predictive factor of the influence of ASD closure on MHA.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Occipital nerve stimulation in medically intractable, chronic cluster headache. The ICON study: rationale and protocol of a randomised trial.
About 10% of cluster headache patients have the chronic form. At least 10% of this chronic group is intractable to or cannot tolerate medical treatment. Open pilot studies suggest that occipital nerve stimulation (ONS) might offer effective prevention in these patients. Controlled neuromodulation studies in treatments inducing paraesthesias have a general problem in blinding. We have introduced a new design in pain neuromodulation by which we think we can overcome this problem. ⋯ The ICON study will show if ONS is an effective preventive therapy for patients suffering medically intractable chronic cluster headache and if there is a difference between high- and low-amplitude stimulation. The innovative design of the study will, for the first time, assess efficacy of ONS in a blinded way.