Back to Search
Start Over
A redefinition of primary headache: chronic migraine.
- Source :
-
Neurological Sciences . Feb2012, Vol. 33, p17-20. 4p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
-
Abstract
- In the field of so-called chronic daily headache, it is not easy for migraine that worsens progressively until it becomes daily or almost daily to find a precise and universally recognized place within the current international headache classification systems. A proposal is advanced to differentiate between a form of high-frequency migraine without aura (10-20 days of headache per month for at least 3 months), to be considered as a migraine without aura subtype, and a form of transformed migraine (TM), to be considered as a complication of migraine. TM-a name that should be preferred to chronic migraine (CM)-would then replace the latter, from which it would distinguish itself by the more restrictive diagnostic criteria (at least 20 days of headache per month for at least 1 year, with no more than 5 consecutive days free of symptoms; same clinical features of migraine without aura for at least 10 of those 20 days). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15901874
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Neurological Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 76172108
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-012-1036-7