bradycardia/headache

Cardiac sarcoidosis should be suspected in young patients with cardiac symptoms, especially when there is concurrent personal or family history of sarcoidosis. While sarcoidosis is self-limiting in about 40% of cases, cardiac involvement portends a more ominous prognosis with higher mortality rates.

We report a 57-year-old woman with progressive gait disturbance, headache, character change, convulsion and coma. She was well until 55 years of age, when she noted an onset of unsteady gait. At times she experienced transient weakness in her right hand, which was followed some difficulty in

The commonest presentation of an extradural haematoma implies a head trauma with transient loss of consciousness followed by a lucid interval then rapid neurological degradation. Some of these haematomas including small ones with no midline shift and few neurological symptoms can be managed without

76 cases of cluster headache are reviewed. Besides confirming established notions, the present study calls attention to the following points: (a) the peculiar behaviour of patients during the attacks does not appear explainable in simple terms of reaction to pain; (b) the occurrence of ECG

BACKGROUND Delayed diagnosis of ventriculo-peritoneal (VP) shunt malfunction results in avoidable morbidity and mortality. One reason is that most of the signs of shunt malfunction have low specificity. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the presence of bradycardia as a sign of VP

Cluster headache (CH) is a primary headache disorder with relatively effective treatments. Although few sufficiently controlled trials are available, verapamil is recommended as the first-line prophylactic drug for CH by the French Headache Society (with a low level of evidence, level B) and by the

We provide a detailed case history of the first patient to receive bilateral hypothalamic stimulation to control severe bilateral chronic intractable cluster headaches initially occurring mostly on the left. These attacks were accompanied by life-threatening hypertensive crises and a grave

A 54-year-old female with vertigo and sarcoidosis presented to the emergency department with a 4-day history of generalised malaise, headache, fever, and near syncope. She was noted to have severe bradycardia and was admitted for possible pacemaker implantation. During the admission, the patient

Ranolazine is a well-known antianginal drug, that was first licensed for use in the United States in 2006. It was objectively shown to improve exercise capacity and to lengthen the time to symptom onset in patients with coronary artery disease. The most commonly reported side effects of ranolazine

Spinal anesthesia is a common anesthesia method and post dural puncture headache (PDPH) is one of its most common adverse effects. Gabapentin is a popular anticonvulsant drug that has been used as an oral nonopioid analgesic in recent years. In this placebo-controlled double-blind study, 120

Changes in heart rate and blood pressure (BP) have been monitored beat-to-beat in a cluster headache patient with and without attacks using a non-invasive Doppler servo method. Two attacks were monitored and during one of them a tilt test was carried out. The variability of heart rate and BP was