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Prolonged migraine aura without headache arrested by sumatriptan. A case report with further considerations
P A Kowacs1, E J Piovesan, C E Tatsui
1Departamento de Clínica Médica, Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil. pak@cwb.palm.com.br
Cephalalgia : an International Journal of Headache
|June 22, 1999
Abstract:
The case of a 42-year-old woman with prolonged migraine visual aura without headache, whose long-lasting episodes of visual aura were successfully controlled by oral sumatriptan, is reported. Effectiveness of sumatriptan was unequivocal, since, after taking sumatriptan, duration of aura would drop from 1.5 h to approximately 20 min. This case suggests that sumatriptan may cross the blood-brain barrier and block spreading depression.