A very unusual headache
Declan O’Kane
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.14-3-323a
Clin Med June 2014 Declan O’Kane
ANorthampton General Hospital, Northampton, UK
Roles: Consultant stroke physician
Editor – ‘A very unusual headache’ (Clin Med February 2014 pp 58–60) is an interesting case indeed. However, the acute severe headache with nausea and vomiting is likely to be an initial presentation of migraine. There is a well described, but poorly understood, relationship between migraine and cervical artery dissection.1 There is also evidence that those with aortic root pathology in Marfan syndrome have increased risk of migraine with aura.2
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A very unusual headache
Declan O’Kane
Clinical Medicine Jun 2014, 14 (3) 323; DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.14-3-323a
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