HEADACHE & TRIGEMINAL Neuralgia Flashcards
Pain SENSITIVE STRUCTURE of BRAIN
🧠⚡Pain Sensitive Means Dura Feels Chilling² Pain ⚡
- Periosteum
- Scalp
- Middle Meningeal ARTERY
- Duramater
- Falx cerebri
- Circle of WILLIS
- CN 5, 9, 10
- Pial Arteries (PROXIMAL part)
Pain INSENSITIVE STRUCTURE IN BRAIN
🧠⚡ ABCDE⚡
- Arachnoidmater & Piamater
- Brain Parenchyma
- Choroid Plexus
- Dura over convexity of skull
- Ependyma
🌸 TYPES of HEADACHE
⭐ 1° HEADACHE
⭐ 2° HEADACHE
Benign ➕ Recurrent ➕ No Organic Disease
1° headache
Causes of 1° HEADACHE
🧠⚡T²IME⚡
- Tension type
- Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgias
- Idiopathic STABBING
- Migraine
- Exertional
Dangerous vs NON-DANGEROUS HEADACHE
Dangerous headache: ICP ⬆️ ⬆️
Mechanism of PRODUCTION OF HEADACHE
⚡⚡ MOST COMMON TYPE OF 1° HEADACHE
Tension Type Headache
Middle aged Female
➕
Headache: Fullness, Tightness Band like or Pressure
➕
Steady Pain
➕
Stress ± Depression (33%)
➕
Chronicity (> 15 days/month)
Tension Type Headache
Patient is NEVER DISTURBED FROM SLEEP in which type of HEADACHE
Tension Type Headache
Duration of HEADACHE in TENSION TYPE HEADACHE
> 30 mins (4-6 hrs)
Headache symptoms that suggest SERIOUS Underlying DISORDER
- Sudden onset
- 1st EVER HEADACHE
- WORST HEADACHE EVER
- VOMITING F/b Headache
- Subacute worsening
- Disturbs sleep
- Pain induced by BENDING, LIFTING or COUGHING
- SYSTEMIC ILLNESS ➕
- Age > 55 yrs
- Abnormal Neurological Examination
- Fever (OR) Unexplained Systemic symptoms
- Pain ASSOCIATED with LOCAL tenderness (TEMPORAL Artery)
Raised ICT
⚡⚡ MOST COMMON DIAGNOSTIC FEATURE
Papilledema
➕
Bradycardia
Hypertension
💊💉 MANAGEMENT of TENSION TYPE HEADACHE
⭐ ACUTE ATTACK
⭐ CHRONIC TTH
⭐ ACUTE ATTACK
🎯 NSAID
⭐ CHRONIC TTH
🎯 Prophylaxis with AMITRIPTYLINE (TCA)
🌸 TYPES of MIGRAINE
- Migraine without AURA (COMMON MIGRAINE)
- Migraine with AURA ( Classical MIGRAINE)
RARE TYPES OF MIGRAINE
🧠⚡BOHR Family ⚡
- Basilar Migraine
- Opthalmoplegic Migraine
- Hemiplegic Migraine
- Retinal Migraine
- Familial HEMIPLEGIC Migraine (Calcium Channelopathy)
Familial HEMIPLEGIC Migraine: 🌸 TYPES
- FHM1: Calcium Channelopathy (CACNAIA)
- FHM2: Na-K ATPase (ATP1A2)
- FHM3: Na channel (SCN1A)
SCN1A gene mutation is seen in
- Familial HEMIPLEGIC Migraine 3
- DRAVET SYNDROME
Stages of MIGRAINE headache
- Prodrome
- Aura
- Headache
- Postdrome
For DIAGNOSIS of
⭐ COMMON MIGRAINE
⭐ CLASSICAL MIGRAINE
⭐ COMMON MIGRAINE
Minimum: 5 ATTACKS, each lasting 4-72 hours
⭐ CLASSICAL MIGRAINE
Minimum: 2 ATTACKS, each lasting 4-72 hours
✨ Features of CLASSICAL AURA MUST be ➕
Features of MIGRAINE AURA
- Gradual onset > 40min
- Lasting < 60min
- Fully Reversible
- Headache after 60 mins or simultaneously without AURA
U/L HEADACHE
✨ MIGRAINE
✨ TRIGEMINAL AUTONOMIC CEPHALGIA
⚡⚡ MOST COMMON MIGRAINE AURA
🧠⚡ VASE⚡
Visual
⬇️
Auditory
⬇️
Sensory
⚡⚡ MOST COMMON VISUAL AURA IN MIGRAINE
Zig Zag lines
⬇️
Fortification spectra
Scintillating SCOTOMA
Tunnel Vision
transient Visual loss
2 Days Prior to Migraine Headache
Mood changes
Irritability
Depression
Sensory Aura in MIGRAINE
Tingling sensation in Hand, spreading to ARMS ➡️ Lips & Tongue
Features of MIGRAINE HEADACHE
🧠⚡SULTANS ⚡
- Severe or Moderate INTENSITY
- U/L
- Throbbing
- Activity Worsens Headache
- Nausea & Vomiting
- Sensitivity to Light & Sound
(Photophobia, Phonophobia, Osmophobia)
⭐ AFTER HEADACHE, PATIENT FEELS LETHARGIC & DEPRESSED for 2 Days
Precipitating FACTOR for MIGRAINE
- Glare
- Bright Light
- Sound
- Hunger
- Stress Excess
- Physical Exertion
- Hormonal Fluctuations during MENSES
- Lack (OR) Excess of Sleep
- Alcohol
- Chemical stimulation
Vascular theory of MIGRAINE
Serotonin theory of MIGRAINE
⬇️ Serotonin levels in Brain
⚡⚡ MOST IMPORTANT CYTOKINE IN MIGRAINE
CGRP
(Calcitonin Gene Related Peptide)
Central Pathogenicity of MIGRAINE
Trigeminovascular complex
Ophthalmoplegic MIGRAINE
Headache ➕ TRANSIENT & Reversible U/L 3rd CN PALSY
MIGRAINE Headache
➕
Ataxia
➕
Vertigo
➕
Tinnitus
Basilar Migraine
Hemiplagia
➕
MIGRAINE headache
Familial HEMIPLEGIC Migraine
MIGRAINE
➕
Transient MONOCULAR VISION LOSS
Retinal MIGRAINE