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Familial Cluster Headache: A Series of 186 Index Patients
Author(s) -
El Amrani Mohammed,
Ducros Anne,
Boulan Pauline,
Aidi Saadia,
Crassard Isabelle,
Visy Jean Marc,
TournierLasserve Elisabeth,
Bousser Marie Germaine
Publication year - 2002
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.1526-4610.2002.02226.x
Subject(s) - cluster (spacecraft) , family history , medicine , index (typography) , cluster headache , pediatrics , first degree relatives , demography , migraine , sociology , world wide web , computer science , programming language
Objective.—To investigate the familial occurrence of cluster headache in a series of French patients fulfilling the International Headache Society diagnosis criteria. Methods.—One hundred eighty‐six index patients and 624 first‐degree relatives were surveyed. Results.—A positive family history of cluster headache was found in 20 index patients (10.75%) with 22 affected first‐degree relatives (3.4%). In multiplex families 6 of the 68 second‐degree relatives that were contacted had cluster headache. Conclusion.—No precise mode of inheritance could be drawn from the observed repartition of cases within multiplex families.