[Prophylactic treatment of cluster headache with verapamil]
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Abstract:
Verapamil is the preventive therapy of choice for cluster headache. The recommended dose ranges from 240-720 mg/day. In a retrospective study nine patients with episodic and three patients with chronic cluster headache were analyzed. In episodic cluster headache early treatment onset stopped attacks within 20 days in 80%, late treatment onset was successful within ten days in 67%. Early treatment onset shortens episode duration by four times. The recommended dose is 360 mg/day. Chronic cluster headache probably requires higher doses.
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