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"Cough Hemicrania" - An Overlapping Form of Headache: Case Reports.
Headache 2017 May
OBJECTIVE: To describe two patients with recurring unilateral brief headaches that fulfilled criteria for both primary cough headache (CH) and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania (CPH).
BACKGROUND: CH is typically a bilateral headache, specifically triggered by cough, straining, or other Valsalva maneuvers. The report of cases sharing features with other primary headache disorders, such as CPH, suggest common pathogenic mechanisms.
METHODS: Case reports.
RESULTS: Two patients (one man), aged 55 and 64, had a two-year history of daily, unilateral, side-locked headache attacks, lasting about 15 minutes, and associated with ipsilateral tearing. Headaches were triggered by cough, sneezing, laughing, or bending forward. Both patients experienced a marked and sustained improvement with indomethacin, and both relapsed when it was interrupted.
CONCLUSIONS: These cases suggest the existence of transitional phenotypes, or shared pathogenic mechanisms, between CH and CPH, two indomethacin-responsive headaches. A more comprehensive analysis of different CH subtypes is necessary to understand their relation with other primary headaches.
BACKGROUND: CH is typically a bilateral headache, specifically triggered by cough, straining, or other Valsalva maneuvers. The report of cases sharing features with other primary headache disorders, such as CPH, suggest common pathogenic mechanisms.
METHODS: Case reports.
RESULTS: Two patients (one man), aged 55 and 64, had a two-year history of daily, unilateral, side-locked headache attacks, lasting about 15 minutes, and associated with ipsilateral tearing. Headaches were triggered by cough, sneezing, laughing, or bending forward. Both patients experienced a marked and sustained improvement with indomethacin, and both relapsed when it was interrupted.
CONCLUSIONS: These cases suggest the existence of transitional phenotypes, or shared pathogenic mechanisms, between CH and CPH, two indomethacin-responsive headaches. A more comprehensive analysis of different CH subtypes is necessary to understand their relation with other primary headaches.
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