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Migraine prevalence in patients with unruptured intracranial aneurysms: A case-control study.
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- Course of Preexisting Migraine Following Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
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- Case Report: Migraine-Like Headache With Visual Aura Initiated by Endovascular Coiling Treatment for a Posterior Cerebral Artery Aneurysm.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Appropriateness of magnetic resonance angiography in the evaluation of migraine patients.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Migraine and risk of stroke.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 2020Review
- The burden of headache following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a prospective single-center cross-sectional analysis.Acta neurochirurgica · 2020Article
- Migraine prevalence in patients with unruptured intracranial aneurysms: A case-control study.Brain and behavior · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectivesMigraine is a suggested risk factor for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH). An increased risk of aSAH in migraineurs may be explained by an increased prevalence of unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIA). We performed a case-control study to compare lifetime migraine prevalence in patients with UIA, patients with a history of transient ischemic attact (TIA) or ischemic stroke and controls without a history of aSAH, TIA or ischemic stroke. MATERIALS AND
methodsPatients with UIA were recruited from two university hospitals. Data on patients with TIA/stroke were retrieved from a previous study. Partners of patients with UIA or TIA/stroke were included as controls. Migraine history was assessed via a telephone interview based on the International Classification of Headache Disorders, second edition criteria. We calculated odds ratios (OR) for migraine with univariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses, adjusted for age, sex, hypertension and smoking.
resultsWe included 172 patients with UIA, 221 patients with TIA or stroke, and 164 controls. In UIA patients, migraine prevalence was 24.4% compared with 14.6% in controls (UIA vs. controls; OR 1.9; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.1-3.5) and 22.2% in TIA/stroke patients (UIA vs. TIA/stroke; OR 1.1; 95% CI 0.7-1.8). After adjustments, the OR for migraine in UIA patients versus controls were 1.7 (95% CI 1.0-3.1) and 0.9 (95% CI 0.5-1.0) versus TIA/stroke. Results were comparable for migraine with and without aura.
conclusionsMigraine prevalence is possibly increased in patients with UIA compared with controls and comparable with the prevalence in patients with TIA or stroke. Further studies are needed to confirm our findings and to investigate the underlying pathophysiology.
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