RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Drug therapy in headache
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 273
OP 279
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-3-273
VO 15
IS 3
A1 Mark W Weatherall
YR 2015
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/3/273.abstract
AB All physicians will encounter patients with headaches. Primary headache disorders are common, and often disabling. This paper reviews the principles of drug therapy in headache in adults, focusing on the three commonest disorders presenting in both primary and secondary care: tension-type headache, migraine and cluster headache. The clinical evidence on the basis of which choices can be made between the currently available drug therapies for acute and preventive treatment of these disorders is presented, and information given on the options available for the emergency parenteral treatment of refractory migraine attacks and cluster headache.