ReviewThe journal of headache and pain2009
Cardiac cephalgia.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Cardiac cephalalgia: an underrecognized cause of secondary headache - a retrospective study.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2026Article
- Hallmarks of headache disorders: part 5 - secondary headaches.The journal of headache and pain · 2026Review
- Cephalalgia-A "Tricky" Symptom for the Cardiologist: Acute Coronary Syndrome Presenting as Headache.Clinical case reports · 2026Article
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- Cardiac cephalalgia-headache as an atypical presentation of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a case report.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Article
- Ischaemic Heart Disease Masquerading as Headache: A Case Series.Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions · 2025Article
- Cardiac cephalalgia: a narrative review and ICHD-3 criteria evaluation.The journal of headache and pain · 2022Review
- Cardiac cephalalgia: a case series of four patients and updated literature review.International journal of emergency medicine · 2022Article
- Headache and sick sinus syndrome: A case report.World journal of clinical cases · 2020Article
- Heart Attack Causes Head-Ache - Cardiac Cephalalgia.Acta Cardiologica Sinica · 2016Article
- Headaches of the elderly.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2015Review
- Cardiac cephalgia: A headache of the heart.Journal of cardiology cases · 2015Article
- Editorial: The first step of diagnosis is to know of the disease and question its presence, lessons from cardiac cephalalgia.Journal of cardiology cases · 2015Article
- Cardiac cephalgia.Current pain and headache reports · 2015Review
- Cardiac Cephalgia.Cardiology research · 2014Article
- Tension-type headache and systemic medical disorders.Current pain and headache reports · 2011Review
- Diagnosis of acute headache.Current pain and headache reports · 2011Article
- Cardiac cephalalgia: First case from India.Annals of Indian Academy of NeurologyArticle
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Abstract
The purpose of this review was to provide a critical evaluation of medical literature on so-called "cardiac cephalgia" or "cardiac cephalalgia". The 2004 International Classification of Headache Disorders codes cardiac cephalgia to 10.6 in the group of secondary headaches attributed to disorder of homoeostasis. This headache is hardly recognizable and is associated to an ischaemic cardiovascular event, of which it may be the only manifestation in 27% of cases. It usually occurs after exertion. Sometimes routine examinations, cardiac enzymes, ECG and even exercise stress test prove negative. In such cases, only a coronary angiogram can provide sufficient evidence for diagnosis. Cardiac cephalgia manifests itself without a specific pattern of clinical features: indeed, in this headache subtype there is a high variability of clinical manifestations between different patients and also within the same patient. It "mimics" sometimes a form of migraine either accompanied or not by autonomic symptoms, sometimes a form of tension-type headache; on other occasions, it exhibits characteristics that can hardly be interpreted as typical of primary headache. Pain location is highly variable. When the headache occurs as the only manifestation of an acute coronary event, the clues for suspicion are a) older age at onset, b) no past medical history of headache, c) presence of risk factors for vascular disorders and d) onset of headache under stress. Knowledge of cardiac cephalgia is scarce, due to its rare clinical occurrence and to the scant importance given to headache as a symptom concomitantly with an ischaemic cardiac event.
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