Hemicrania continua: towards a new classification?

The Journal of Headache and Pain

Letter to the Editor

Ottar Sjaastad¹  Fabio Antonaci² 

[1] Department of Neurology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospitals, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway;Headache Centre, C. Mondino National Institute of Neurology Foundation, IRCCS, Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy;

关键词: Hemicrania continua;    Headache classification;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1129-2377-15-8

 received in 2013-12-26, accepted in 2014-01-06,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Hemicrania continua (HC) was described and coined in 1984 by Sjaastad and Spierings. Later cases, carrying this appellation, should conform to the original description. The proposed classification criteria (ICHD 3rd edition beta version) for HC focus e.g. on localized, autonomic and “vascular” features. Such features do, however, not belong to the core symptomatology of HC and should accordingly be removed. The genuine, original HC will then re-appear.The headache that the new criteria refer to, has in an unfair and unjustified manner been given the designation HC. A revision of the proposed criteria seems mandatory.

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© Antonaci and Sjaastad; licensee Springer. 2014. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.