Cluster headache: Pharmacological treatment and neurostimulation

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 153-162

  Leone, Massimo ^a   Franzini, Angelo ^a   Cecchini, Alberto Proietti ^a   Mea, Eliana ^a   Broggi, Giovanni ^a   Bussone, Gennaro ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTIVE AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BACLOFEN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; ELETRIPTAN; ERGOT DERIVATIVE; ERGOTAMINE; GABAPENTIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; LIDOCAINE; LITHIUM; MELATONIN; METHYLERGOMETRINE; METHYSERGIDE; NARATRIPTAN; OCTREOTIDE; OXYGEN; PIZOTIFEN; PLACEBO; SUMATRIPTAN; TOPIRAMATE; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; VALPROIC ACID; VERAPAMIL;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADD ON THERAPY; AGITATION; ANOREXIA; APPETITE; ATAXIA; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BALANCE DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLURRED VISION; BONE NECROSIS; BRADYCARDIA; CHRONIC PAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER HEADACHE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECG ABNORMALITY; EPILEPSY; ERGOTISM; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FATIGUE; GLAUCOMA; HAIR LOSS; HAND TREMOR; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INSOMNIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACRIMATION DISORDER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG FIBROSIS; MIGRAINE; MOOD DISORDER; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEPHROGENIC DIABETES INSIPIDUS; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NERVE STIMULATION; NEURALGIA; NEUROIMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OBESITY; OVARY DISEASE; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PERIPHERAL ISCHEMIA; PLEURAL FIBROSIS; POLYURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; REMISSION; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; REVIEW; RHINORRHEA; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SLURRED SPEECH; SOMNOLENCE; TACHYCARDIA; THIRST; THORAX PAIN; TREMOR; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA;

CLUSTER HEADACHE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 62549131702     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro1050     Document Type: Review

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