Two postmenopausal migraineurs who developed frequent and excruciating migraine headaches (one following estrogen replacement therapy and the other following a stroke) were treated with combination vitamin D and calcium. Therapeutic replacement with vitamin D and calcium resulted in a dramatic reduction in the frequency and duration of their migraine headaches.

Dimitri Renard, MD Helene Bonnaure, MD Pierre Labauge, MD, PhD A 46-year-old woman with a history of seizures, migraine, diabetes mellitus, and neurosensory hearing loss presented with progressive gait unsteadiness. Her mother had the same clinical features. Examination revealed short stature, cognitive deficit, and ataxia. Brain MRI showed diffuse atrophy and posterior leukoencephalopathy (fig...

Cryptogenic stroke is a form of cerebral vascular accident that has an unknown origin and is rarely associated with patent foramen ovale (PFO) and migraine headaches. This is an uncommon occurrence in young, healthy, active adults, and it is increasingly rare for the episode to occur during an athletic competition. Stroke is easily recognizable with its distinct signs and symptoms, but it is al...

Annals of NeurologyVolume 89, Issue 3 p. 627-629 Letters/Replies Migraine and Cryptogenic Ischemic Stroke Valentina Mazzoleni MD, Department Clinical Experimental Sciences, Neurological Clinic, University Brescia, ItalySearch for more papers by this authorMario Grassi PhD, the Nervous System Behavior Unit Medical Genomic Statistics, Pavia, authorCorrado Lodigiani Thrombosis Hemorrhagic Diseases...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patent foramen ovale (PFO) has been identified as a potential risk factor for stroke, but the mechanisms of PFO-associated stroke remain unsettled. The aim of our study was to evaluate possible differences in stroke risk factors and stroke patterns between patients with and without PFO that may give clues to the mechanism of PFO-associated stroke. METHODS This prospecti...

Background: Migraine is a chronic primary headache disorder with episodic attacks which affects the people in most productive periods of their working lives; women are affected up to four times more often than men. Objective: The purpose present study was identify association migraine and risk ischemic stroke young women.
 Methodology: It’s hospital based case-control carried out Departmen...