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Headache and Facial Pain in Sickle Cell Disease
Abstract
Children and adolescents with sickle cell disease (SCD) have a high prevalence of recurrent headaches (24.0–43.9 %). Acute presentation with headache can be diagnostically challenging, as the clinician must consider evaluation of several potentially devastating conditions including vascular diseases (stroke, hemorrhage, venous sinus thrombosis, moyamoya, posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome), facial and orbital bone infarcts, dental pain, and osteomyelitis. Patients with SCD and primary headache disorders may benefit from comprehensive headache treatment plans that include abortive therapy, pr...
Source: Current Pain and Headache Reports - February 15, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
