Saturday 23 November 2013

Migraine Aura Without Headache - The Medical consequences

Migraine Without Headache
It is also known as migraine aura without headache or Silent Migraines. Migraine aura without headache should be considered as a diagnosis in anyone who has recurrent episodes of transient symptoms, especially those that are visual or neurological or involve vertigo. Visual and neurological symptoms due to migraine are not unusual and most commonly occur in older persons with a history of migraine headaches. Migraine aura without headache should be diagnosed only when transient. Migraine auras are reversible and recurrent episodes of neurological symptoms that resolve within 1 hour. They are associated with migraine but may not precede a headache, according to "Migraine aura without headache:
Benign, but a diagnosis of exclusion" by ROBERT S. KUNKEL, MD Consultant, Headache Center, Department of Neurology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Page 529)(a).
Medical consequences
1. Stroke
Migraine
migraine with aura headache can increase the risk of ischemic stroke in women of childbearing age, according to "Duration, frequency, recency, and type of migraine and the risk of ischaemic stroke in women of childbearing age" by Donaghy M, Chang CL, Poulter N; European Collaborators of The World Health Organisation Collaborative Study of Cardiovascular Disease and Steroid Hormone Contraception.(21)

2. Epilepsy
There is a link associated between headache/migraine and epilepsy by using the PubMed data base, according to "Links between headaches and epilepsy: current knowledge and terminology.[Article in English, Spanish]" by Caminero A, Manso-Calderón R.(22)

3. Vascular diseases
Some researchers suggested that women who use hormonal contraceptives and hormone replacement treatment may increase the risk of migraine occurrence and administration of exogenous hormones may cause worsening of migraine as may expose migrainous women to an increased risk of vascular disease(23)


4. Erectile dysfunction
There are indication that ED is associated with having been previously diagnosed with migraines, particularly in younger populations in 5763 patients with ED as in the cases study of randomly selected 17,289 patients as the controls conducted by National Taiwan University, and Taipei Medical University(24)

5. Celiac disease
Celiac disease is defined as a digestive disease that damages the small intestine as a result of an immune-mediated toxic reaction of which interferes with absorption of nutrients from food. People with Celiac disease cannot tolerate gluten and 28% of the patient found to be association with migraine(25)

6. Etc.

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