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Cerebral Infarction in Patients With Migraine Accompaniments
Author(s) -
Shuaib Ashfaq,
Lee Mary Anne
Publication year - 1988
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.1526-4610.1988.hed2809599.x
Subject(s) - migraine , etiology , cerebral infarction , medicine , infarction , mechanism (biology) , anesthesia , cardiology , ischemia , myocardial infarction , philosophy , epistemology
SYNOPSIS Migraine accompaniments (MA) are transient visual, sensory, motor or behavioral symptoms that are identical to the auras of classical migraine and are thought to have a similar underlying mechanism but which do not occur in association with headache. Cerebral infarction may rarely occur during an episode of migraine and if no other more obvious etiology can be found the infarct is thought to be related to migraine. Cerebral infarction, to our knowledge, has not been reported in association with MA. We now report four patients with a history of MA who developed cerebral infarction. Infarctions were occipital in two cases, frontoparietal in one case and parietal and cerebellar in one case. All patients showed good recovery. The mechanism for cerebral infarction in MA is probably similar to that of infarcts seen with classical migraine.