Brain structural and functional differences between pure menstrual migraine and menstrually-related migraine

Acute Treatment of Menstrually Related Migraine*

Acute treatment of menstrually related migraine (MRM) focuses not only on prescribing a drug to abort an individual attack, but also on the patient’s treatment needs and the link between menstruation and migraine, other menstrually related symptoms and events, and the phases of a migraine attack. Because of its unique clinical characteristics, and because it is historically underdiagnosed and u...

Defining the Differences Between Episodic Migraine and Chronic Migraine

Chronic migraine (CM) and episodic migraine (EM) are part of the spectrum of migraine disorders, but they are distinct clinical entities. Population-based studies have shown that those with CM demonstrate higher individual and societal burden because they are significantly more disabled than those with EM and have greater impaired quality of life both inside and outside the home. Proper diagnos...

Menstrual versus non-menstrual attacks of migraine without aura in women with and without menstrual migraine.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to compare clinical characteristics of menstrual and non-menstrual attacks of migraine without aura (MO), prospectively recorded in a headache diary, by women with and without a diagnosis of menstrual migraine without aura (MM) according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD). MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 237 women from t...

Structural brain changes in migraine.

CONTEXT A previous cross-sectional study showed an association of migraine with a higher prevalence of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-measured ischemic lesions in the brain. OBJECTIVE To determine whether women or men with migraine (with and without aura) have a higher incidence of brain lesions 9 years after initial MRI, whether migraine frequency was associated with progression of brain l...

Diagnosis of Menstrual Migraine