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Clinical Quiz. Headache Week. Describe the main features of the following headaches:. Migraine. Unilateral Throbbing or pulsating Associated with N + V Exacerbated by movement Photophobia + Phonophobia Lasts approx 72 hours Aura (classic) or no aura (common). Tension-Type Headache.
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Clinical Quiz Headache Week
Migraine • Unilateral • Throbbing or pulsating • Associated with N + V • Exacerbated by movement • Photophobia + Phonophobia • Lasts approx 72 hours • Aura (classic) or no aura (common)
Tension-Type Headache • Bilateral or holocranial headache • Pressing, squeezing or tightening sensation – “like a band or vice around the head” • Occ muscle tenderness in cervical/paracervical muscles
SAH • “worst headache of my life” • Sudden onset • Peaks in intensity seconds after onset • Inv: blood in CSF
Raised ICP • Worse in the morning • Some relief when upright, worse when recumbent, walking, bending, coughing • young, overweight women • Occpulsitiletinnitis, transient visual obscurations • Papilloedema, CN 6 palsies, vomiting, fits,
GCA • Usually in pts over 50 • Long lasting • Tenderness of scalp over temporal arteries • Thickening, nodulation, pulselessness and tenderness of arteries on palpation • Fever, fatigue, weight loss • May lead to visual loss
Red Flags for headache • Systemic symptoms or illness (including fever, persistent or progressive vomiting, stiff neck, pregnancy, cancer, immunocompromised state, anticoagulated); • Neurologic signs or symptoms (including altered mental status, focal neurologic symptoms or signs, seizures, or papilledema); • Onset is new (especially in those age 40 years or older) or sudden; • Other associated conditions (eg, headache is subsequent to head trauma, awakens patient from sleep, or is worsened by Valsalvamaneuvers); • Prior headache history that is different (eg, headaches now are of different pattern or are rapidly progressive in severity or frequency).
Stroke in Anterior Cerebral Artery • Personality changes • Contralateralhemiplegia and hemisensory loss
Stroke in Middle Cerebral Artery • Homonymous hemianopia • Contralateralhemiplegia and hemisensory loss in upper limb and face • Language problems • Decorticate spasticity
Stroke in Posterior Cerebral Artery • Contralateralhemiparesis • Eye movement paresis/paralysis