Migraine prevalence in patients with atrial septal defect

The Journal of Headache and Pain

Short Report

Yuji Kato¹  Norio Tanahashi¹  Takeshi Hayashi¹  Toshiki Kobayashi² 

[1] Department of Neurology and Cerebrovascular Medicine, Saitama International Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, 1397-1 Yamane, Hidaka, 350-1298, Saitama, Japan;Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Saitama International Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, 1397-1 Yamane, Hidaka, 350-1298, Saitama, Japan;

关键词: Atrial septal defect;    Right-to-left shunt;    Migraine;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1129-2377-14-63

 received in 2013-05-29, accepted in 2013-07-20,  发布年份 2013

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundPatients with a patent foramen ovale have a high prevalence of migraine with aura (MA). However, whether patients with an atrial septal defect (ASD) have a high prevalence of migraine remains unclear. The present study aimed to determine the prevalence of migraine and its clinical characteristics in patients with ASD.FindingsNinety-five patients (age ≥ 20 years) who had undergone percutaneous ASD closure responded to a questionnaire used by neurologists to diagnose migraine either with or without aura. We diagnosed migraine before ASD closure according to the criteria of the International Headache Society. The overall prevalence of migraine seemed to be higher in the present study than in the Japanese general population (24.2% vs. 9.4%, respectively). All patients with MA were female and significantly younger than those without migraine (p < 0.01).ConclusionsOur findings suggested that the susceptibility to the development of MA differs according to sex and age in patients with cardiac shunt.

【 授权许可】

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© Kato et al.; licensee Springer. 2013. 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.