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69 - MIGRAINE AND MIGRAINE-LIKE CONDITIONS

from PART VIII: - VASOSPASTIC CONDITIONS AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS VASCULOPATHIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2010

Louis R. Caplan
Affiliation:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
Julien Bogousslavsky
Affiliation:
Valmont Clinique, Glion, Switzerland
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This chapter focuses on the complex relationship of migraine with stroke and the different mechanisms by which migraine can predispose to stroke. Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS), CADASIL, and mitral valve prolapse (MVP) are all associated with migraine or migraine like episodes and strokes or stroke-like episodes. There is a higher prevalence of migraine in patients with transient global amnesia. Stroke-like migraine attacks after radiation therapy (SMART) is a relatively new syndrome in which stroke-like migraine attacks occur as a late consequence of brain irradiation. Many of the transient episodes in cerebral reversible vasoconstriction syndrome resemble migrainous attacks. Cerebral hemorrhages occasionally are reported after a severe migraine attack. The posited explanation is that initially intense vasoconstriction during the migraine headache leads to ischemia of a local brain region with edema and ischemia of the small vessels perfused by the constricted artery.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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