emilia/headache

Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with a chief complaint of headache are common and are frequently clinically challenging. The primary role of ED physicians is to discriminate between the most common primary benign headaches and secondary potentially life-threatening headaches.

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical impact of adverse reactions related to drugs for primary headache treatment. METHODS We examined the adverse reactions to 360 medications prescribed by the specialists of the Headache Centre of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia to 256 consecutive outpatients

Our aim was to study and compare pharmacoepidemiology of headache treatment in two different settings: inside and outside a specialized Centre. We analysed the differences in headache treatment between 612 subjects admitted for the first visit ('naive') (F/M: 2.41; mean age = 37.31 +/- 14.09 years)

OBJECTIVE To determine the diagnostic accuracy of an algorithm structured in four clinical scenarios to discriminate benign primary headaches from serious secondary non-traumatic headaches (NTH) in the emergency department (ED). BACKGROUND NTH is usually a benign symptom but can occasionally result

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether genetic and geographical differences may influence the clinical spectrum of giant cell arteritis (GCA), we compared the demographic and clinical features of patients with biopsy-proven GCA from Reggio Emilia (Northern Italy) and Lugo (Northwest Spain) during a

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the frequency and clinical characteristics of periadventitial small-vessel vasculitis (SVV) and isolated vasa vasorum vasculitis (VVV). METHODS We identified 455 temporal artery biopsies performed in residents of Reggio Emilia, Italy between 1986 and 2003. Slides of temporal

OBJECTIVE To quantify and characterize the similarities and the differences between chronic migraine (CM) patients with medication overuse and episodic migraine (EM) patients with only occasional analgesic use. BACKGROUND Population-level epidemiology, characteristics, mechanisms of chronic daily