Menstrual migraine: Update on pathophysiology and approach to therapy and management

Current Treatment Options in Neurology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-14

  Calhoun, Anne H ^a  

^a Carolina Headache Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALMOTRIPTAN; ANALGESIC AGENT; BROMOCRIPTINE; CAFFEINE; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; DICLOFENAC POTASSIUM; ELETRIPTAN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; EXCEDRIN; FROVATRIPTAN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; MEFENAMIC ACID; NAPROXEN; NAPROXEN PLUS SUMATRIPTAN; NARATRIPTAN; NIMESULIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; PYROGLUTAMATE MAGNESIUM; RIZATRIPTAN; ROFECOXIB; SUMATRIPTAN; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZOLMITRIPTAN;

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CLIMACTERIUM; COMORBIDITY; DIZZINESS; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSMENORRHEA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; JAUNDICE; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENSTRUAL MIGRAINE; MIGRAINE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; NAUSEA; OVARY CYST; PARESTHESIA; PREVALENCE; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SELF MEDICATION; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP QUALITY; TOXIC HEPATITIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VASOMOTOR DISORDER;

EID: 84857635021     PISSN: 10928480     EISSN: 15343138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-011-0153-6     Document Type: Article

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