T D Rozen

..Cluster treatment involves abortive, transitional, and preventive therapy strategies, all of which are discussed in this article...

..The most frequently used surgical techniques for cluster are directed toward the sensory trigeminal nerve and the cranial parasympathetic system...

..From this open label investigation coenzyme Q10 appears to be a good migraine preventive. Placebo-controlled trials are now necessary to determine the true efficacy of coenzyme Q10 in migraine prevention...

..Case reports are presented with an explanation as to why these headaches should be considered cluster headache...

..More than 90 cases of hemicrania continua have been reported, but there is still uncertainty about its clinical features...

..CONCLUSIONS: Olanzapine appears to be a good abortive agent for cluster headache. It alleviates pain quickly and has a consistent response across multiple treated attacks. It appears to work in both episodic and chronic cluster headache...

..To study the clinical characteristics of cluster headache in women. Cluster headache is a disorder of men (male to female ratio 6-7:1)...

..003, P = 0.003, P < 0.005, respectively). Greater occipital nerve blockade is a therapeutic option for the transitional treatment of cluster headache...

..demonstrated that melatonin could rapidly alleviate cluster attacks, but only in episodic cluster patients. We report two chronic cluster headache patients who had both daytime and nocturnal attacks that were alleviated with melatonin...

..This theory has implications for the classification, research and treatment of primary and secondary headache patients...

..A review of the literature was made to try to identify a stereotypic "post gamma knife headache," as well as hypothesize about its mechanism of induction...

..Topiramate provided a sustained analgesic effect when administered to patients with trigeminal neuralgia. The newer antiepileptic drugs show considerable promise in the management of cluster headache and trigeminal neuralgia...

..This review discusses the potential effects on weight of the more common headache medications...

..CONCLUSIONS: Although our incidence rates were restricted to medically recognized cases of migraine, we confirmed previously reported epidemiological patterns...

..Ten cases of the remitting form have been reported, none of which have had a seasonal pattern. We report a patient with remitting hemicrania continua with a clear seasonal predilection...

..Over 80% of patients could state the exact date their headache began. One-third of patients developed NDPH with a flu-like illness...

..This article will suggest that some forms of cluster headache are not primarily hypothalamic influenced and that the GON may play a significant role in cluster pathogenesis in some individuals...

..The following manuscript presents information on the clinical presentation of cluster headache and both medicinal and surgical interventions...

..Hormonal manipulation may be a treatment strategy for hypothalamic-influenced trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias...

..The presence of an orbital bruit in a patient with daily headache suggests an underlying secondary cause. A case is presented in which a unilateral orbital bruit appeared to be the only physical sign of a dural venous sinus thrombosis...

..The following manuscript presents information on the clinical presentation of cluster headache and both medicinal and surgical interventions...

..A patient is presented who had complete but transient relief of chronic cluster headache with mycophenolate mofetil...

..In this article, a number of the short-lasting headache disorders are reviewed, including chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, SUNCT syndrome, hypnic headache, exploding head syndrome, primary stabbing headache, and cough headache...

..Olanzapine should receive particular consideration for patients with refractory headache who have mania, bipolar disorder, or psychotic depression or whose headaches previously responded to other neuroleptic medications...

..This may be the first reported case of cluster that only occurs after a defined trigger and never spontaneously. It also may be the first cluster headache subtype that is indomethacin responsive...

..Clinical similarities with hemiplegic migraine suggest that hemiplegic cluster, too, may be a channelopathy. One of our patients had a family history suggestive of an autosomal dominant inheritance...

..A case patient is presented who had cluster headaches only during her menstrual cycles. This appears to be the first ever reported case of pure menstrual cluster headache...