• DOI:10.1016/S1474-4422(11)70266-6
Corpus ID: 31939284

Migraine and stroke: a complex association with clinical implications

@article{Kurth2012MigraineAS,
  title={Migraine and stroke: a complex association with clinical implications},
  author={Tobias Kurth and Hugues Chabriat and Marie-Germaine Bousser},
  journal={The Lancet Neurology},
  year={2012},
  volume={11},
  pages={92-100}
}

Tobias Kurth, Hugues Chabriat, Marie-Germaine Bousser

Published 2012

Medicine

The Lancet Neurology

Migraine and stroke are two common and heterogeneous neurovascular disorders with complex relations. Data show no firm association between stroke and migraine without aura--by far the most common type of migraine--but a doubling of the risk of ischaemic stroke in people who have migraine with aura. Migraine with aura is characterised by a low brain threshold for cortical spreading depression, the biological substrate of the aura, which can be triggered by many factors, including specific… CONTINUE READING

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