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Ventricular tachycardia during basilar-type migraine attack
Kalliopi Pitarokoili1, Stefanie Dahlhaus, Kerstin Hellwig
1Department of Neurology, Ruhr University, St. Josef-Hospital, Bochum, Germany.
Abstract:
Autonomic dysfunction is a characteristic of migraine attacks, rarely, even cardiac repolarization abnormalities have been associated with migraine. We report a case of documented ventricular tachycardia during basilar-type migraine attack. The therapeutic implications of such a co-occurrence as well as a possible relationship between ventricular tachycardia and the underlying biology of basilar-type migraine are discussed.
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