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Lithium Prophylaxis for Chronic Cluster Headache
Author(s) -
Kudrow Lee
Publication year - 1977
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 - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1977.hed1701015.x
Subject(s) - cluster headache , lithium carbonate , lithium (medication) , medicine , prophylactic treatment , cluster (spacecraft) , lithium therapy , anesthesia , pediatrics , surgery , bipolar disorder , migraine , ion , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , ionic bonding , programming language
SYNOPSIS Thirty‐two patients with chronic cluster headache, not responding to conventional therapy, were treated with lithium carbonate for 32 weeks. Treatment was discontinued in 4 cases because of intolerable side effects. Marked and continued improvement occurred in 27 of 28 patients throughout the treatment period. Twenty‐five percent of all patients had mild or transient side effects without increased serum lithium levels. Long‐term prophylactic lithium maintenance treatment is efficacious in selected cases of chronic cluster headache.