Evidence base for the medical treatments used in cluster headache

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 168-178

  Tyagi, Alok ^b   Matharu, Manjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; BETAMETHASONE DIPROPIONATE; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CAPSAICIN; CIS CAPSAICIN; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; DISODIUM HYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; ERGOTAMINE; GABAPENTIN; LEUPRORELIN; LIDOCAINE; LITHIUM; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MELATONIN; METHYSERGIDE; OCTREOTIDE; OXYGEN; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; SUMATRIPTAN; TIZANIDINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VERAPAMIL; ZOLMITRIPTAN;

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHRONIC CLUSTER HEADACHE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER HEADACHE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMBASE; EPISODIC CLUSTER HEADACHE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FLOW RATE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN THERAPY; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

CLUSTER HEADACHE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; OCTREOTIDE; OXAZOLIDINONES; OXYGEN; SEROTONIN AGONISTS; SUMATRIPTAN; TRYPTAMINES;

EID: 63249104955     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-009-0029-6     Document Type: Review

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