Secondary Headache Disorders: Approach, Workup, and Special Considerations for Select Populations.
Semin Neurol
; 42(4): 418-427, 2022 08.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2062349
ABSTRACT
Headache is one of the most common diagnoses in neurology. A thorough understanding of the clinical presentation of secondary headache, which can be life-threatening, is critical. This review provides an overview of the diagnostic approach to a patient with headache, including discussion of "red," "orange," and "green" flags. We emphasize particular scenarios to help tailor the clinical workup to individual circumstances such as in pregnant women, when particular attention must be paid to the effects of blood pressure and hypercoagulability, as well as in older adults, where there is a need for higher suspicion for an intracranial mass lesion or giant cell arteritis. Patients with risk factors for headache secondary to alterations in intracranial pressure, whether elevated (e.g., idiopathic intracranial hypertension) or decreased (e.g., cerebrospinal fluid leak), may require more specific diagnostic testing and treatment. Finally, headache in patients with COVID-19 or long COVID-19 is increasingly recognized and may have multiple etiologies.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
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Pseudotumor Cerebri
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Headache Disorders, Secondary
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Etiology study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Language:
English
Journal:
Semin Neurol
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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