Medication Overuse Headache: History, Features, Prevention and Management Strategies
@article{Saper2013MedicationOH, title={Medication Overuse Headache: History, Features, Prevention and Management Strategies}, author={Joel R. Saper and Arnaldo Neves Da Silva}, journal={CNS Drugs}, year={2013}, volume={27}, pages={867-877} }
Medication overuse headache (MOH) is a daily, or almost daily, headache form that arises from overuse of one or more classes of migraine-abortive or analgesic medication. The main classes of drugs that cause MOH are opioids, butalbital-containing mixed analgesics, triptans, ergotamine tartrate derivatives, simple analgesics (except for plain aspirin), and perhaps non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. MOH can be debilitating and results from biochemical and functional brain changes induced by…
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MOH can severely impact quality of life, so it is important to identify patients who are at risk of analgesic overuse and stop the offending drug(s), rescue therapy for withdrawal symptoms and preventative therapy.
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This review aims at presenting MOH clinical features, pathophysiology insights, and recent knowledge and guidance regarding treatments as well as emerging treatments as monoclonal antibodies to migraine that may result in better adherence and tolerability profiles aswell as outcomes.
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High prevalence of opioid use among people with CH may be due to inappropriate headache treatment or development of MOH among those treated for other pain conditions, suggesting that migraine may be under-recognized and inappropriately treated, leading to overuse of other medications.
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