Headache natural history, complications and prognosis

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Editor-In-Chief: Robert G. Schwartz, M.D. [1], Piedmont Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, P.A.; Associate Editor-In-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]

The symptoms of cluster headache usually decreased with age.13% of patients with initial episodic cluster headache may progress to develop chronic cluster headache.33% of patients with initial episodic cluster headache may progress to episodic pattern.

• The symptoms of cluster headache usually decreased with age.
• 13% of patients with initial episodic cluster headache may progress to develop chronic cluster headache.
• 33% of patients with initial episodic cluster headache may progress to episodic pattern.^[1]

• Status migrainosus: The migraine episode lasts more than 72 hours.
• Persistent aura without infarction: The symptoms of aura last for more than a week in the absence of any neuroimaging findings suggestive of infarction.
• Migrainous infarction: The symptoms of aura last for more than a week in the context of any neuroimaging findings suggestive of infarction in the corresponding brain territory.
• Seizure triggered by a migrainous aura^[2]

• 13% of patients with initial episodic cluster headache may progress to develop chronic cluster headache.
• 33% of patients with initial episodic cluster headache may progress to episodic pattern.^[1]

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