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Significance of Migrainous Features in Cluster Headache: Divalproex Responsiveness
Author(s) -
Wheeler Steve D.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1046/j.1526-4610.1998.3807547.x
Subject(s) - cluster headache , migraine , divalproex , medicine , cluster (spacecraft) , pediatrics , zolmitriptan , pharmacotherapy , anesthesia , psychiatry , sumatriptan , bipolar disorder , mood , mania , receptor , computer science , programming language , agonist
Two patients with cluster headache and prominent migrainous features are described and a shared migraine and cluster headache pathophysiology is discussed. Both patients failed routine cluster headache pharmacotherapy, one failed multiple operative interventions; however, both remitted on divalproex. It is suggested that migrainous features be assessed in cluster headache and divalproex initiated before pursuing invasive procedures.