Open AccessApproach of the patient with headache
Author(s) -
Corneliu Toader,
Mioriţa Toader,
Iolanda Cristina Vivisenco,
Mircea Drăghici,
Dragoș Octavian Palade
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
romanian medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2069-606X
pISSN - 1220-5478
DOI - 10.37897/rmj.2015.4.16
Subject(s) - medicine , medical history , pathological , neuroimaging , physical examination , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , surgery , pathology
Headache is part of an alarm system announcing that somewhere in the body of the person who has this accuse something peculiar happens in the pathological or physiological point of view. Patients have various forms of headache and, therefore, each case must be correctly diagnosed, being necessary a very thorough medical history, in order to characterize each type of headache. Although most patients with headache have a normal physical exam, it is extremely important to continue the investigation plan with functional testing, that will guide both the diagnosis and treatment. Approach to the patient with headache starts with the usual paraclinical tests. In this paper, the authors bring into question electrophysiological and neuroimaging paraclinical testing of patients with headache.