Cluster headache-acute and prophylactic therapy

Headache

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 272-286

  Ashkenazi, Avi ^a   Schwedt, Todd ^b  

^a Neurologic Group of Bucks/Montgomery County   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acute therapy; cluster headache; prophylactic therapy

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; BETAMETHASONE; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; ERGOTAMINE; ERGOTAMINE TARTRATE; GABAPENTIN; LIDOCAINE; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MELATONIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYSERGIDE; OCTREOTIDE; OXYGEN; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; SOMATOSTATIN; SUMATRIPTAN; TOPIRAMATE; TRIAMCINOLONE; VALPROIC ACID; VERAPAMIL; ZOLMITRIPTAN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABLATION THERAPY; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA DOLOROSA; ATAXIA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CHRONIC CLUSTER HEADACHE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; CLUSTER HEADACHE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ENDOSCOPY; EPISODIC CLUSTER HEADACHE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FATIGUE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GREATER OCCIPITAL NERVE; HAIR LOSS; HOME OXYGEN THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFECTION; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; KERATITIS; LITHIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MONOTHERAPY; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NECK PAIN; NERVE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NYSTAGMUS; OXYGEN BREATHING; OXYGEN MASK; OXYGEN THERAPY; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE BLOCK; POLYURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REMISSION; REVIEW; RHINOSCOPY; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN PAIN; SOMNOLENCE; SPHENOPALATINE GANGLION BLOCK; TASTE DISORDER; THROAT TIGHTNESS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREMOR; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VOMITING; WEIGHT;

CATHETER ABLATION; CLUSTER HEADACHE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; LITHIUM CARBONATE; OXYGEN; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; TRYPTAMINES; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 79551584507     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2010.01830.x     Document Type: Review

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