Migraine: complications
Evidence-based neurology checklist on migraine: complications: Chronic or refractory migraine: risk factors Female gender >4 attacks per month Cutaneous allodynia Extra-cephalic chronic pain disorders Financial difficulties Head injury High caffeine intake: historical and current Inadequate acute…
Chronic or refractory migraine: risk factors
- Female gender
- >4 attacks per month
- Cutaneous allodynia
- Extra-cephalic chronic pain disorders
- Financial difficulties
- Head injury
- High caffeine intake: historical and current
- Inadequate acute treatment
- Life stressors
- Low education
- Low social status
- Medication overuse
- Metabolic comorbidities
- Physical inactivity
- Psychiatric symptoms
- Respiratory disorders
- Sleep apnoea
- Sleep disturbances
- Tobacco use
Audio-vestibular complications
Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS): causes
Risk of ischaemic stroke
Other complications
References
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- Richard B Lipton RB, Buse DC, Nahas SJ, et al. Risk factors for migraine disease progression: a narrative review for a patient-centered approach. J Neurol 2023; 270:5692-5710.
- Benjamin T, Gillard D, Abouzari M, Djalilian HR, Sharon JD. Vestibular and auditory manifestations of migraine. Curr Opin Neurol 2021 (Online ahead of print).
- Porta-Etessam J, Cuadrado ML, Rodriguez-Gomez O, Valencia C, Garcia-Ptacek S. Hypothermia during migraine attacks. Cephalalgia 2010; 30:1406-1407.
- Barbanti P, Fabbrini G, Aurilia C, Vanacore N, Gruccu G. A case control study on excessive daytime sleepiness in episodic migraine. Cephalalgia 2007; 27:1115-1119.
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