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What future for treatment of chronic migraine with medication overuse?
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21533706     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Chronic headaches have increasingly become a focus within the field of head pain. Most of the patients with frequent headache eventually overuse their medications, and if it happens [the percentage is approximately 4%], the diagnosis of chronic migraine with medication-overuse headache is clinically important, because patients rarely respond to preventive medications while overusing acute medications. This kind of headache is recognized as a biobehavioral disorder, a complex condition wherein emotion and pain are intermingled. Properly treating medication overuse with adequate strategies by different and specific steps are essential components for helping these patients to improve and for preventing relapses. The clinical experience performed at our Headache Unit, the necessity of withdrawal, different treatment schedules, and different treatment strategies of our center were discussed.
Authors:
Licia Grazzi; G Bussone
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology     Volume:  32 Suppl 1     ISSN:  1590-3478     ISO Abbreviation:  Neurol. Sci.     Publication Date:  2011 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-05-02     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  100959175     Medline TA:  Neurol Sci     Country:  Italy    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  19-22     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Neurological Sciences, Headache Unit, Neurological Institute "C.Besta" IRCCS Foundation, Via Celoria 11, 20133, Milan, Italy, grazzi.l@istituto-besta.it.
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