Cluster headache (CH): acute treatment
Evidence-based neurology checklist on cluster headache (ch): acute treatment: Sumatriptan This is the drug of choice for acute attacks The dose is 6mg SC It can be used along with Lithium, Steroids, or Calcium antagonists Zolmitriptan 100% Oxygen Galcanezumab Other options Investigational acute…
Sumatriptan
- This is the drug of choice for acute attacks
- The dose is 6mg SC
- It can be used along with Lithium, Steroids, or Calcium antagonists
Zolmitriptan
100% Oxygen
Galcanezumab
Other options
Investigational acute treatments
Acronyms
References
- Robbins MS, Starling AJ, Pringsheim TM, Becker WJ, Schwedt TJ. Treatment of cluster headache: The American Headache Society evidence-based guidelines. Headache 2016; 56:1093-1106.
- Nesbitt AD, Goadsby PJ. Cluster headache. BMJ 2012; 344:e2407.
- May A, Leone M, Afra J, et al. EFNS guidelines on the treatment of cluster headache and other trigeminal-autonomic cephalalgias. Eur J Neurol 2006; 13:1066-1077.
- Diagnosis and management of headache in adults. SIGN Guideline 107. November 2008.
- Francis GJ, Becker WJ, Pringsheim TM. Acute and preventive pharmacologic treatment of cluster headache. Neurology 2010; 75:463-473.
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