Migraine Variants And Beyond

Migraine Variants And Beyond

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The Classic presenting features of both migraine with and without aura have been clearly defined.Occasionally however migrainous headaches are accompanied by abrupt appearance of focal and ominous neurological signs.Such attacks can be labelled as migraine variants and the diagnosis in reality is one made by exclusion of other CNS diseases.Some but not all such conditions are redken shades 9gi mentioned in the International Headache Society (IHS) classification under the general heading of migraine with aura.Rarely, the focal neurological deficit may outlast the migraine attack by days and occasionally with appearance of structural brain lesions on neuroimaging.

Such attacks have been 355 maybelline fit me labelled as complicated Migraine by the IHS.The present review deal with the clinical, radiologic and pathophysiologic aspects of both these conditions - migraine variants and complicated migraine.