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The application of cold in neurosurgery (cryosurgery) has already clearly shown that it acts on the nervous structures in two opposite directions, depending on the temperature: i.e., at temperature from 0 degrees to --10 degrees, it stimulates the nervous fibres, and, at lower temperatures (below--80 degrees), it causes their destruction. On these bases we started our diagnostic researches and the treatment of certain forms of non-migraine nor trigeminal facial pain.
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PMID:[Diagnostic and therapeutic studies using the cryoprobe in various forms of facial pain, not of the migraine or trigeminal type]. 93 30

During a period of 823 days (from 1st October 1971 to 31st December 1973), attacks of migraine, non-migraine vascular cephalea and cephalea due to other neighbouring disturbances strong enough to affect working capacity were studied in 4 subjects. 2152 pieces of data were collected. 2) Frequency was at a minimum in summer and peaked in spring and autumn. 3) Comparison with meteorological conditions points to a highly significant recrudescence of disturbances in cold, damp weather, and meteorological periodicity independent of biological (circadian) rhythms.
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PMID:[Meteorotropy of vasomotor cephalea]. 93 47

Headache is an alarm symptom, whether there is an organic disease (lesional headache) or a perturbation of one of the various functions of the head (functional headache). Lesional headaches follow a sinusitis or an arthrosis, or accompany a "temporal arteritis of Horton". Functional headaches include several varieties. 1. Trigemellar neuralgia. 2. Vascular algia originating from the basal arteries, the large cerebral venous sinuses or the branches of the external carotid. Among these are: a) headaches due to a dilatation of the internal wall, causing "Horton headache", migrain-like psychosomatic migraine and hormonal migraines (premenstrual, menstrual, menopausal or linked to the use of contraceptive pills); b) headaches caused by an angiospasm of the arteriole, which is the case in exposure to the cold, in traumatic headaches (malfunction of temporomandibular articulation, dry alveolitis), in psychosomatic angiospastic algias and in ethmoidal artery algias previously described by the author in 1949 (Godin's disease). 3. Headaches due to psychic hypertension. 4. Postconcussional psychogenic headaches. 5. Neurotic headaches. The author gives a detailed description of the subjective symptoms in each case, including localisation, form, intensity, duration course and associated phenomenons. This facilitates greatly the differential diagnosis and the choice of complementary examinations. Necessary biological investigations should be performed (e.g. hormonal balance). One should however avoid to increase the number of complementary examinations which would only delay treatment and would expose patients to somatisation. Furthermore, in each case drug treatment, periarterial infiltration technics of the temporal, internal frontal, facial, mastoid and occipital arteries are described. The necessity of questioning the patient at length and to listen to him to enable him to verbalise conscious conflicts is emphasized. A serious medicopsychological examination and a relaxation treatment to reduce anxiety and muscular tension are advised in some cases.
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PMID:[Headache]. 98 3

Headache is an alarm sympton, whether there is an organic disease (lesional headache) or a perturbation of one of the various functions of the head (functional headache). Lesional headaches follow a sinusitis or an arthrosis, or accompany a "temporal arteritis of Horton". Funstional headaches include several varieties. 1. Trigemellar neuralgia. 2.Vascular algi originating from the basal arteries, the large cerebral venous sinuses or the branches of the external carotid. Among these are: a) headaches due to a dilatation of the internal wall, causing "Horton headache", migraine-like psychosomatic migraine and hormonal migraines (premenstrual, menstrual, menopausal or linked to the use of contraceptive pills); b) headaches caused by an angiospasm of the arteriole, which is the case in exposure to the cold, in traumatic headaches (malfunction of temporomandibular articulation, dry alveolitis), in psychosomatic angiospastic algias and in ethmoidal artery algias preciously described by the author in 1949 (Godin's disease).3. Headaches due to psychic hypertension. 4. Postconcussional psychogenic headaches. 5. Neurotic headaches. The author gives a detailed description of the subjective symptoms in each case, including localisation, from, intensity, duration course and associated phenomenons. This facilitates greatly the differential diagnosis and the choice of complementary examinations. Necessary biological investigations should be performed (e.g. hormonal balance). One should however avoid to increase the number of complementary examination which would only delay treatement and would expose patients to somatisation. Furthermore, in each case drug treatment, periarterial infiltration technics of the temporal, internal frontal, facial, mastoid and occipital arteries are described. The necessity of questioning the patient at lenght and to listen to him to enable him to verbalise conscious conflicts is emphasized. A serious medicopsychlogical examination and a relaxation treatment to reduce anxiety and muscular tension are advised in some cases.
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PMID:[Headache]. 103 33

We assessed the lifetime prevalences of headache disorders in a cross-sectional epidemiologic survey of a representative 25- to 64-year-old general population. We classified the headaches on the basis of a clinical interview and a physical and neurologic examination using the operational diagnostic criteria of the International Headache Society. Lifetime prevalence of idiopathic stabbing headache was 2%, of external compression headache 4%, and of cold stimulus headache 15%. Benign cough headache, benign exertional headache, and headache associated with sexual activity each occurred in 1%. Lifetime prevalence of hangover headache was 72%, of fever headache 63%, and of headache associated with disorders of nose or sinuses 15%. Headaches associated with severe structural lesions were rare. External compression headache, fever headache, headache associated with metabolic disorders, and headache associated with disorders of nose or sinuses all showed significant female preponderance. The symptomatic headaches and headaches unassociated with structural lesions were more prevalent among migraineurs. In subjects with tension-type headache, only hangover headache was overrepresented. There was no association between the headache disorders and abnormal routine blood chemistry or arterial hypertension. In women with migraine, however, diastolic blood pressure was significantly higher than in women without migraine.
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PMID:Symptomatic and nonsymptomatic headaches in a general population. 160 51

The most important studies on weather-related pain have been analysed and their results compared. Since different medicometeorological classifications were used, and individual reactions to the weather vary considerably, it is possible to recognize unequivocal, universally valid relationships only with difficulty. Rheumatic pain arises mainly in a cold front area, in unstable polar air, and in thunderstorms. Amputation- and scar-related pain is similarly dependent upon changes in the weather. Headaches and migraine are typical signs of an imminent change in the weather. The question as to whether or not the endorphin concentration is of significance for meteorogenic pain is discussed, and possible influences of atmospherics activity noted.
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PMID:[Weather-induced effects on pain perception]. 176 30

The effect of peripheral cold provocation on myocardial perfusion was evaluated utilizing thallium-201 perfusion imaging in 13 selected patients with arterial hyperreactivity (Raynaud's phenomenon: n = 8; migraine: n = 6) and angiographically documented coronary artery spasm. Eleven out of 13 subjects with coronary arterial spasm--but none of a group of patients with obstructive coronary artery disease--had transient myocardial perfusion defects during cold provocation. The localization of transient perfusion abnormalities during myocardial scintigraphy correlated with the myocardial areas distal to the spontaneous or ergonovine-induced coronary arterial spasm detected by angiography. Transient reduction of tracer uptake during cold provocation and normalization of myocardial perfusion by redistribution imaging was paralleled by areas of hypokinesia observed during the test by contrast ventriculography (n = 8). The described findings in the coronary system during peripheral cold pressor test occurred independently of the presence of Raynaud's phenomenon, and without achieving the ischemic threshold.
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PMID:Transient myocardial perfusion abnormalities during cold provocation test in patients with arterial hyperreactivity. 177 61

Autonomic nervous system functions were studied in 13 females with migraine without aura during headache-free intervals, using physiological, pharmacological and biochemical methods. Heart-rate in the resting condition and blood pressure rises in the cold-face and isometric handgrip tests were higher than in controls. Normal cardiovascular responses to the Valsalva manoeuvre and to noradrenaline infusion suggest that the baroreflex arc is intact. Normal heart rate responses to the Valsalva manoeuvre, to the cold-face test and to deep breathing confirmed a normal cardiac parasympathetic function. Clonidine infusion showed a sedative and depressor effect and an inhibition of plasma NA similar to those occurring in controls, suggesting a normal central sympathetic tone. As a whole, the physiological, pharmacological and biochemical tests were consistent with a non-specific sympathetic hyperactivity, but do not confirm any impairment of the autonomic control of the cardiovascular system in migraine patients in headache-free intervals.
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PMID:Autonomic nervous system function in migraine without aura. 177 61

In a previous paper we suggested that the vascular cold patch may be a useful prognostic index to followup migraine patients. Considerable criticism against our contention has been raised by Swerdlow and Dieter (Headache 29:562-568, 1989, ref. 1), who claim that the cold patch constitutes a "fixed geography" of the vasculature of migraine patients. In the present paper we replicate and extend our previous findings reporting the results of facial thermography in a sample of 246 consecutive migraine patients. Of these the 206 exhibiting a typical cold patch or a significant asymmetry in the forehead thermal dissipation were admitted to prophylactic treatment (beta blocker or calcium channel blocker). The thermography was performed at entry in the study and after six months of active treatment. The clinical outcome was compared to the thermographic findings. The patients were subdivided in three classes on the basis of the clinical outcome. Among the 136 patients who experienced complete or substantial relief from headache the cold patch disappeared or markedly improved in 85% of the cases. In the 46 patients with partial relief the thermogram showed an improved pattern in 48% of cases, most of the time of smaller extent than in the previous class. In 24 patients we observed no clinical improvement. Among these the thermogram remained unchanged in 85% of cases. Taken together these findings corroborate our previous suggestion that thermography is useful to monitor the clinical course of the disease. One additional suggestion from the present data is that thermography closely parallels the clinical course so as to represent a useful criterion for the decision of discontinuing the therapy.
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PMID:The disappearance of the "cold patch" in recovered migraine patients: thermographic findings. 181 63

Stimulation of the vestibular system by cold irritation of the ear was performed in 12 patients during a migraine attack. In eleven of the subjects the headache was changed. The changes varied from completely disappeared to a slight decrease. The duration of the changes was either several minutes, during the vestibular irritation, or days. All changes were related to the induced sensation of vertigo. We discuss the probable mechanisms of these vestibular influences.
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PMID:How caloric vestibular irritation influences migraine attacks. 224 64


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