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Cerebral Blood Flow Studies in Patients with Cluster Headache
Author(s) -
Nelson R.F.,
Boulay G.H. du,
Marshall John,
Russell R.W. Ross,
Symon Lindsay,
Zilkha E.
Publication year - 1980
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.1526-4610.1980.hed2004184.x
Subject(s) - cluster headache , headaches , cerebral blood flow , cluster (spacecraft) , medicine , anesthesia , migraine , histamine , psychology , psychiatry , computer science , programming language
SYNOPSIS Cerebral blood flow (CBF) has been measured in 26 patients liable to cluster headaches. Of four patients studied during spontaneous attacks CBF fell in three and rose in one. Attacks could not be induced by nitroglycerine, alcohol or histamine except when patients were currently experiencing a bout of cluster headaches. The CBF rose during some induced attacks and fell during others. It is concluded that CBF changes do occur in cluster headache but the pattern is not consistent and does not at present suggest a mechanism for cluster headache.