myocardial infarction/headache

The pain of cluster headache attacks is severe, excruciating and selectively responsive to subcutaneous sumatriptan. Serious cardiovascular events attributed to sumatriptan are extremely rare and have most often been reported in patients at significant cardiovascular risk, or in overt cardiovascular

Headache as the presenting symptom of myocardial ischemia has been reported in more than 20 cases. These headaches have been described as of gradual onset, associated with exertion and with EKG changes. We present herein the first case of thunderclap headache occurring at rest as the sole symptom of

We report a 64-year-old man who complained of headache without chest pain at the onset of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). He had no history of chest pain or headache. Severe headache in this case was the first symptom of AMI. The headache was reproduced during stress test. During the angioplasty

Headache represents a rare manifestation of myocardial ischemic pain. It is believed that this clinical symptom results from convergence of heart autonomic fibers with somatic inputs originating from the head. The authors describe for the first time the case of a 73-year-old woman who experienced an

OBJECTIVE Headache as the only presenting symptom of acute myocardial infarction (MI) is an extremely uncommon phenomenon. The aim of this report is to describe a 61 year-old female patient with exertional headaches being the solely presentation of acute MI. METHODS As there were no complaints of

Chest pain is the typical symptom of myocardial infarction (MI), and there are many atypical manifestations such as stomachache or dyspnea. Headache is a rare presentation of MI, which has specifically been termed "cardiac cephalalgia" or "cardiac cephalgia". In this article, we have reported a case

Myocardial infarction presenting solely as an acute, severe headache is underdiagnosed in elderly patients. In patients over 80 years of age, myocardial infarction presents more commonly with atypical symptoms than with chest pain. The authors describe two patients who presented with headache as the

We report a very rare case of a patient who presented with headache as the sole symptom of an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The patient underwent primary percutaneous coronary angioplasty followed by drug-eluting stent implantation and the headache was immediately relieved. The pathophysiologic

BACKGROUND Migraine is a common, debilitating, chronic neurovascular disorder. Triptans are considered the drugs of choice to treat migraine attacks; however, their use is limited owing to concerns about cardiovascular safety. METHODS The aim of this review is to describe: the mechanisms of action

Cardiac ischemia typically causes chest pain, variously radiating elsewhere. Convergence of cardiac nerve fibers on central pathways receiving somatic afferents from the head is likely to be responsible for the perception of cardiac ischemic pain as headache. A 47-year-old man was admitted to the

This study examined the relationship between migraine, chest pain, and risk of myocardial infarction (MI) in a retrospective cohort of 79,588 enrollees in the northern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program who underwent comprehensive, multiphasic preventive medicine examinations in 1971

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the frequency with which paramedics follow protocols for the administration of aspirin to patients to whom an ambulance is called for chest pain associated with suspected ischaemic heart disease. METHODS Ambulance services in England and Wales who had conducted a recent