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Migraine with aura after administration of sublingual nitroglycerin tablets
1Kenézy Teaching Hospital, Neurology Department, Debrecen, Bartók Béla u.3, 4031 Hungary.
Headache
|February 13, 2001
Abstract:
As a nitric oxide donor, nitroglycerin can trigger migraine in migraineurs. The headache is not characteristically accompanied by an aura. A patient with no personal or family history of migraine reported the development of a typical visual aura and a throbbing headache while using nitroglycerin for angina pectoris. The possible mechanisms are discussed.