Acute pharmacotherapy of migraine, tension-type headache, and cluster headache

In most migraine patients acute therapy is needed. Migraine can be treated either with specific drugs, the triptans and ergot alkaloids, or with NSAIDs. Triptans are a major step foreward in migraine therapy. The therapeutic gain for headache relief is 50% for subcutaneous sumatriptan whereas it is...

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Main Author: Tfelt-Hansen, Peer
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer-Verlag 2007
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476138/