It Is Just a Blood Patch: Considerations for Patients with Preexisting Intracranial Hypertension by Devina Shiwlochan, Sargis Ohanyan, Kanishka Rajput

“…Epidural blood patches are routine procedures interventional pain physicians perform for postdural puncture headaches (PDPH), whether it be due to the inadvertent wet tap from an epidural or a diagnostic lumbar puncture. …”
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Clinical Features and Predictors of Lethal Outcome in Tick-Borne Encephalitis: A Retrospective Study from Lithuania by G. Rynkevič, E. Žilinskas, D. Streckytė, D. Radzišauskienė, R. Mameniškienė

“…The most common symptoms were headache (509, 86.56%) followed by febrile fever (403, 68.54%), fatigue (400, 68.03%), and dizziness (394, 67.01%). …”
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Acupuncture as prophylaxis for chronic migraine: a protocol for a single-blinded, double-dummy randomised controlled trial by Claire Shuiqing Zhang, Bin Li, Lin Zeng, Lu Liu, Luo-peng Zhao, Kelun Wang, Jingxia Zhao, Linpeng Wang, Xianghong Jing

“…The primary outcome is the reduction of monthly headache days, and the secondary outcomes include the reduction of the number of days with acute headache medications, and changes of Migraine Disability Assessment, Migraine-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire, Headache Impact Test, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-trait, and Beck Depression Inventory-II scores from baseline to endpoints.Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval of this study was granted by the Research Ethical Committee of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Capital Medical University (2017BL-045-01). …”
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Unexpected High Sensory Blockade during Continuous Spinal Anesthesiology (CSA) in an Elderly Patient by R. Ketelaars, A. P. Wolff

“…The risk of post-dural-puncture headache using this technique in elderly patients is very low and therefore precludes the need to try to prevent it. …”
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Tongue Necrosis Secondary to Giant Cell Arteritis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Rafael Alex Barbosa de Siqueira Sobrinho, Karolina Cayres Alvino de Lima, Helena Carvalho Moura, Mônica Modesto Araújo, Christyanne Maria Rodrigues Barreto de Assis, Pedro Alves da Cruz Gouveia

“…Clinical findings are headache, jaw claudication, fever, pain, and thickening of the temporal artery. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Zavegepant as Abortive Treatment for Migraine by Nazir Noor, Alexis Angelette, Abby Lawson, Anjana Patel, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Cyrus Yazdi, Alan D. Kaye

“…Migraine headache is a widespread and complex neurobiological disorder that is characterized by unilateral headaches that are often accompanied by photophobia and phonophobia. …”
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Patent Foramen Ovale Closure for Treating Migraine: A Meta-Analysis by Yu Zhang, Haijiao Wang, Ling Liu

“…Treatment with PFO closure could reduce the frequency of headaches and monthly migraine days and is an efficient treatment for migraine attacks with aura.…”
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Clinical Features and Severity of Leptospirosis Cases Reported in the Hawke’s Bay Region of New Zealand by Paul Sellors, Rebecca F. Watson, Rachel Bate, Gemma L. Bentham, Kathryn Haigh

“…Most common presenting symptoms were pyrexia (93%), myalgia, and headache (both 86%). 93% of patients worked in the farming or meat industries. …”
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Acute Transverse Myelitis (Ascending Myelitis) as the Initial Manifestation of Japanese Encephalitis: A Rare Presentation by Varshney Ankur Nandan, Kumar Nilesh, Behera Dibyaranjan, Tiwari Ashutosh, Anand Ravi, Anand Arvind

“…Japanese encephalitis, an inflammatory brain disease prevalent in Southeast Asia, usually presented with fever, headache, convulsions, brain stem signs with pyramidal and extrapyramidal features, and altered sensorium. …”
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Implication of High Body Fat Percentage on Migraine Chronification in Premenopausal Females by Pooja Ojha, Varun Malhotra

“…Chronic migraine, being a debilitating headache disorder, needs assessment of the risk factors implicated in its occurrence. …”
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Introducing graphical abstracts in by Esme Ekizoğlu, Rogelio Dominguez-Moreno, Simona Sacco

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Sakit Kepala pada Variasi Anatomi Hidung dan Sinus Paranasal by Tika Hakikah, Dolly Irfandy, Bestari Jaka Budiman

“…The anatomical variations of the nasal and sinus paranasal can cause headaches. The most common variants have deviated septum, concha bullosa, and agger nasi cells. …”
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Transient Global Amnesia with Reversible White Matter Lesions: A Variant of Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome? by Tomoki Nakamizo, Ippei Tsuzuki, Takashi Koide

“…Here we report the case of a 58-year-old woman who presented with isolated amnesia and headache. On admission, her blood pressure was 187/100 mmHg. …”
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Management of General Practitioners of the Hospital Districts of Ouagadougou about Migraine (Burkina Faso) by A. A. Dabilgou, A. Dravé, J. M. A. Kyelem, A. Zoma, C. Napon, A. Millogo, K. Karfo, J. Kaboré

“…The majority of general practitioners (56.9%) have referred headache patients to a colleague or specialist. Conclusions. …”
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Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome as Presenting Form of Very Early Systemic Sclerosis by María Isabel Pedraza, Julia Barbado, Marina Ruiz, Ángel Luis Guerrero

“…A 64-year-old female was admitted due to 1-week pulsating headache more prominent on frontal scalp, accompanied by phonophobia, photophobia, and facial flushing. …”
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A Comparison of Dysautonomias Comorbid with Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome and with Migraine by Gisela Chelimsky, Shruti Madan, Amer Alshekhlee, Elizabeth Heller, Kevin McNeeley, Thomas Chelimsky

“…Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) shares many features with migraine headache, including auras, photophobia, and antimigrainous treatment response being traditionally viewed as a migraine variant. …”
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Self-medication pattern among medical students in Middle Delta, Egypt by Nadira Mansour Hassan, Shimaa Mohamed Mohamed Koabar

“…The key determinants of self-medication was students’ medical knowledge from self- experience and studies (55.9%). Headache was a common complaint for self-medication (80.4%). …”
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A Case of Tuberculous Meningitis with Tuberculoma in Nonimmunocompromised Immigrant by Parth Rali, Hammad Arshad, Eric Bihler

“…We present a case of tuberculous (TB) meningitis in nonimmunocompromised immigrant worker who initially presented with headache and later with generalized tonic clonic seizures and disseminated tuberculosis.…”
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Migraine consultation and treatment in the era of COVID-19 by K. Ryliškienė

“…The literature review also provides information on the headache associated with personal protective equipment. …”
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Investigation of Chemokine Receptor CCR2V64Il Gene Polymorphism and Migraine without Aura in the Iranian Population by Alireza Zandifar, Maryam Taheriun, Samira Soleimani, Faraidoon Haghdoost, Mohamadhasan Tajaddini, Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard

“…For measuring the severity of headache, every patient filled out the MIGSEV questionnaire. …”
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