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Ophthalmology
Migraine and other Headache Syndromes
Built from Khurana — Neuro-Ophthalmology
What’s inside
6 sections · 44 slides
Overview
- What this topic teaches you
General and Anatomical Basis
Which structures feel pain
- The ophthalmologist's role in headache
- Which structures inside the skull actually feel pain?
- How intracranial disease turns into headache
- Structures outside the skull that cause headache
Evaluating a Case of Headache
History does most of the work
- Why history matters more than examination
- History: symptoms and triggers to ask about
- Red-flag clues in the history
- Systemic examination and investigations
Migraine
The recurrent, throbbing, familial headache
- What migraine is
- Pathophysiology: migraine is a brain problem
- Three factors in migraine pathogenesis
- Aura and genetics
- The six types of migraine
- Migraine without aura: diagnostic criteria
- Common migraine: features to recognise
- Migraine with aura (classic migraine): criteria
- The five stages of a classic migraine attack
- Classic migraine: important cautions
- Treatment of migraine
- Two named forms of classic migraine
- Ophthalmoplegic migraine
- Ophthalmoplegic migraine: differentials and criteria
- Retinal migraine and chronic migraine
- Reader's note page
Other Headache Syndromes
The non-migraine patterns to recognise
- Cluster headache (Horton's headache)
- SUNCT syndrome and stress-tension headache
- Temporal arteritis
- Headache due to raised intracranial tension (ICT)
- Sinus disease headache
- Raeder's syndrome (paratrigeminal neuralgia)
- Trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux)
- Icepick headache and miscellaneous causes
Summary
Pulling the patterns together
- Quick pattern recogniser
- Key takeaways
- Recurrent headaches in a child under 10; each attack brings ptosis, a dilated pupil and a paralysed eye. Diagnosis?
- References
- Neuro-Ophthalmology