Delayed migraine-like headache in healthy volunteers after a combination of acetazolamide and glyceryl trinitrate

Cephalalgia

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1294-1300

  Daugaard, D ^a   Thomsen, L L ^a   Iversen, H K ^a   Olesen, J ^a  

^a GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acetazolamide; Glyceryl trinitrate; Headache; Migraine; Nitroglycerin

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; IBUPROFEN; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; SUMATRIPTAN;

ADULT; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIZZINESS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG TOLERABILITY; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; HEADACHE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIGRAINE LIKE HEADACHE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; NAUSEA; NORMAL HUMAN; PARESTHESIA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN TINGLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASTE DISORDER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIGRAINE WITHOUT AURA; NITROGLYCERIN; PLACEBOS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASODILATOR AGENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74549208012     PISSN: 03331024     EISSN: 14682982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2982.2009.01887.x     Document Type: Article

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