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Esra Özkan1, Özlem Celebi2, Özlem Keskin3
1Koç University Research Center for Translational Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
Background:
After the acute pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a wide variety of symptoms are identified under the term post-COVID syndrome, such as persistent headache. Post-COVID headache can be presented in a broad spectrum like headache attributed to systemic infection, chronification of already existing primary headache, or long-lasting, and also late-onset new daily persistent headache. Still, little is known about the pathophysiology of post-COVID headache, but activation of the trigeminovascular system may be one of the players.
Case Report:
Here, we present a case with a severe, long-lasting post-COVID headache and its sudden cessation with calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) monoclonal antibody treatment.
Conclusion:
In our previous protein mimicry study, we have pointed at mimicry of virus spike protein and CGRP receptors. This mechanism may enlighten the current, common, and yet unsolved post-COVID headache cases.
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