Indomethacin-Responsive Headache Disorders

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OBJECTIVE: This article describes the clinical features and treatment of the indomethacin-responsive headache disorders paroxysmal hemicrania and hemicrania continua.

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Both paroxysmal hemicrania and hemicrania continua are treated with indomethacin at the lowest clinically useful dose. It has recently become clear that some patients with either condition may respond to treatment with noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation, which can be both indomethacin sparing and, in some cases, headache controlling. Given the lifelong nature of both paroxysmal hemicrania and hemicrania continua, brain imaging with MRI is recommended when the conditions are identified, specifically including pituitary views.

ESSENTIAL POINTS: Paroxysmal hemicrania and hemicrania continua are indomethacin-responsive headache disorders that offer a rewarding and unique opportunity to provide marked clinical improvement when recognized and treated appropriately. These disorders share the final common pathway of the trigeminal-autonomic reflex, with head pain and cranial autonomic features, and are differentiated pathophysiologically by the pattern of brain involvement, which can be seen using functional imaging. They have distinct differential diagnoses to which the clinician needs to remain alert.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.) - 30(2024), 2 vom: 01. Apr., Seite 488-497

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Goadsby, Peter J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Indomethacin
Journal Article
XXE1CET956

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 04.04.2024

Date Revised 10.04.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1212/CON.0000000000001409

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370579313