Often misdiagnosed as migraine, particularly in children, the diagnosis rate of CH has been increasing ... Emerging interventional procedures offer new avenues for managing refractory cases.

Alternative treatments: Some strategies that have been used for managing refractory (resistant to standard treatment) migraine-triggered epilepsy include the ketogenic diet and the use of opioids.

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Severe migraine headaches that are not responding to treatment may be called intractable migraine, status migrainosus, refractory headaches, or treatment-resistant migraine. There are overlaps among ...

A migraine episode may have up to four distinct stages or phases, each of varying duration: prodrome, aura, headache, and postdrome. But not everyone experiences all the stages all the time.

Previously it was called common migraine 1.2 MA Recurrent disorder manifesting in attacks of reversible focal neurological symptoms that usually develop gradually over 5–20 min and last for less ...

Kabir Nigam [Opens in a new window], Evidence indicates that ketamine is highly effective, has a lower side effect profile and is better tolerated compared to many augmentation strategies for ...

Background: Migraine is a widespread, recurrent primary headache disorder primarily characterized by severe pulsatile headache, typically on one or both sides. It is often accompanied by nausea, ...

You might be suffering from a migraine, especially if it occurs on one side of your head and is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. Migraines occur most ...

It is thought that many headaches are the result of tight muscles and dilated, or expanded, blood vessels in the head. Although migraine headaches were previously thought to be due to dilated blood ...

Patients who are unresponsive to 4–8 weeks' treatment with PPIs twice daily might have so-called refractory GERD. The first investigation these patients should undergo is upper endoscopy to ...