Medication-overuse headache in patients with cluster headache
@article{Paemeleire2008MedicationoveruseHI, title={Medication-overuse headache in patients with cluster headache}, author={Koen Paemeleire and Stefan Evers and Peter J. Goadsby}, journal={Current Pain and Headache Reports}, year={2008}, volume={12}, pages={122-127} }
Cluster headache (CH) is associated with the most severe pain of the primary headache disorders. Barriers to optimal care include misdiagnosis, diagnostic delay, undertreatment, and mismanagement. Medication-over-use headache (MOH) may further complicate CH and may present as increased CH frequency or development of a background headache, which may be featureless or have some migrainous quality. A personal or familial history of migraine appears to be strongly associated with the development of…
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