Journal article
Sumatriptan can alleviate headaches due to carotid artery dissection
Headache, Vol.41(6), pp.590-591
2001
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4610.2001.041006590.x
PMID: 11437896
Abstract
Cluster headaches can be mimicked by a spontaneous carotid artery dissection. We report a 45-year-old man with a spontaneous carotid artery dissection whose unilateral headache responded to sumatriptan. An oral dose of 50 mg of sumatriptan relieved 90% of the pain after 2 hours. A second dose the next day achieved similar results within 4 hours. The diagnosis of dissection was made later by magnetic resonance angiogram and conventional angiography. This case illustrates that a positive response to a triptan can not be used to distinguish the first attack of cluster headache from a carotid artery dissection.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Sumatriptan can alleviate headaches due to carotid artery dissection
- Creators
- Enrique C LEIRA - Souers Stroke Institute, Department of Neurology, St. Louis (Mo) University School of Medicine, United StatesSalvador CRUZ-FLORES - Souers Stroke Institute, Department of Neurology, St. Louis (Mo) University School of Medicine, United StatesRodney O LEACOCK - Souers Stroke Institute, Department of Neurology, St. Louis (Mo) University School of Medicine, United StatesSaleem I ABDULRAUF - Department of Neurosurgery, St. Louis (Mo) University School of Medicine, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Headache, Vol.41(6), pp.590-591
- DOI
- 10.1046/j.1526-4610.2001.041006590.x
- PMID
- 11437896
- NLM abbreviation
- Headache
- ISSN
- 0017-8748
- eISSN
- 1526-4610
- Publisher
- Blackwell; Malden, MA
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2001
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Epidemiology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neurosurgery
- Record Identifier
- 9984020729302771
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