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ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports2004

Prophylactic migraine therapy: emerging treatment options.

Marcelo E Bigal, Abouch V Krymchantowski, Alan M Rapoport

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Review in Current pain and headache reports, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Comparison of greater occipital and supraorbital nerve block with amitriptyline use in migraine treatment.Dusunen adam : Bakirkoy Ruh ve Sinir Hastaliklari Hastanesi yayin organi · 2024
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  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Treating epilepsy in the setting of medical comorbidities.Current treatment options in neurology · 2014
    Article
  5. Review
  6. Migraine headache prophylaxis: current options and advances on the horizon.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2006
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  7. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Marcelo E BigalDepartment of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1165 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. mbigal@aecom.yu.edu
Abouch V Krymchantowski
Alan M Rapoport

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, new treatment options for migraine prevention are reviewed. An overview about migraine pathophysiology is provided and current indications for migraine prevention and new and upcoming preventive medications are discussed briefly. Data are presented on topiramate, levetiracetam, zonisamide, botulinim toxin, tizanidine, nefazodone, lisinopril, candesartan, carabersat, petasites, and coenzyme Q.

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Central Nervous System AgentsHumansMigraine DisordersProtective AgentsCentral Nervous System AgentsProtective Agents

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