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[Menstrual headache: subtypes, clinical phenotypes and treatment]
María Elena Toribio-Díaz1, Jaume Morera-Guitart, Vicente Medrano
1Hospital de Henares, Coslada, Espana. etoribiod@hotmail.com
Introduction:
Up to 60% of women relate their episodes of headache to menstrual cycle. Menstrual migraine has been included in the second edition of the International Classification of Headache disorders. Menstrual tension-type headache has not yet been recognised by the International Headache Society.
Aims:
To evaluate the prevalence of different subtypes of menstrual headache and to analyze their clinical features and the treatment prescribed.
Patients And Methods:
We prospectively included women attending several neurology outpatient clinics, from January to November 2008 whose headache appeared during the menstrual period.
Results:
A total of 108 patients were included during the study period. Mean age was 34.8 ± 8.9 years-old. 29.3% suffered from pure menstrual migraine, 58.7% from menstrual related migraine, 4.5% from pure menstrual tension-type headache and 7.5% from menstrual related tension type headache.
Conclusions:
Our data suggest that menstrual related tension-type headaches exist with a prevalence found about 12%, in our neurology outpatient clinics.
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