Intravenous lidocaine and mexiletine in the management of trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 145-150

  Marmura, Michael J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic daily headache; Cluster; Lidocaine; SUNCT

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CITALOPRAM; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; DULOXETINE; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; LIDOCAINE; METOPROLOL; MEXILETINE; PHENYTOIN; PROPRANOLOL; TOCAINIDE; TOPIRAMATE; VERAPAMIL;

AGITATION; ALLODYNIA; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRADYCARDIA; CHRONIC DAILY HEADACHE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONVULSION; COORDINATION DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIZZINESS; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG METABOLISM; ERYTHROMELALGIA; EUPHORIA; FIBROMYALGIA; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; HYPOTENSION; MIGRAINE; MORTALITY; MYOTONIA; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEW DAILY PERSISTENT HEADACHE; NONHUMAN; ORAL PARESTHESIA; PAIN; PARANOIA; PARESTHESIA; POSTACOUSTIC NEUROMA HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RASH; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SHORT LASTING UNILATERAL NEURALGIFORM HEADACHE ATTACK WITH CRANIAL AUTONOMIC SYMPTOM; SIDE EFFECT; SUNCT SYNDROME; TRANSFORMED MIGRAINE; TREMOR; TRIGEMINAL AUTONOMIC CEPHALALGIA; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIDOCAINE; MEXILETINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SUNCT SYNDROME; TRIGEMINAL AUTONOMIC CEPHALALGIAS;

EID: 77953535305     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-010-0098-6     Document Type: Review

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