Primary headache in children and adolescents: Udate on pharmacotherapy of migraine and tension-type headache

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-19

  Bonfert, Michaela ^a   Straube, Andreas ^b   Schroeder, Andreassebastian ^a   Reilich, Peter ^a   Ebinger, Friedrich ^c,d   Heinen, Florian ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c St Vincenz Hospital   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

acute headache treatment; migraine; pediatrics; preventive headache treatment; prophylactic headache treatment; tension type headache

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALMOTRIPTAN; AMITRIPTYLINE; CAFFEINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DICLOFENAC POTASSIUM; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE MESILATE; DIPYRONE; ELETRIPTAN; ETIRACETAM; FLUNARIZINE; FLUPIRTINE; FROVATRIPTAN; GABAPENTIN; IBUPROFEN; MIRTAZAPINE; NAPROXEN; NARATRIPTAN; NIMESULIDE; PARACETAMOL; PIZOTIFEN; PREDNISONE; PROPRANOLOL; RIZATRIPTAN; SUMATRIPTAN; TIZANIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; ZELRIX; ZOLMITRIPTAN; ZONISAMIDE;

AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALGESIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LIVER TOXICITY; MEDLINE; MIGRAINE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NAUSEA; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PHONOPHOBIA; PHOTOPHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; REYE SYNDROME; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENSION HEADACHE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESICS; CHILD; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE; TRYPTAMINES;

EID: 84873057929     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: 14391899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1330856     Document Type: Review

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