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Query: UMLS:C0010200 (cough)
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Benign cough headache (BCH) presents as an intermittent, usually bilateral, severe bursting or explosive pain brought on by coughing. Some of the known conditions which can mimic the pain experienced in BCH are subarachnoid hemorrhage, increased intracranial pressure, intracranial tumors, and even toothache. Careful evaluation must be carried out in order to differentiate between these conditions. A case of BCH which presented as a toothache is reported. The evaluation for exertional headaches, and for headaches brought on by coughing, is discussed.
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PMID:Cough headache presenting as a toothache: a case report. 832 98

We analyzed our experience with cough, exertional, and vascular sexual headaches, evaluated the interrelationships among them, and examined the possible symptomatic cases. Seventy-two patients consulted us because of headaches precipitated by coughing (n = 30), physical exercise (n = 28), or sexual excitement (n = 14). Thirty (42%) were symptomatic. The 17 cases of symptomatic cough headache were secondary to Chiari type I malformation, while the majority of cases of symptomatic exertional headaches and the only case of symptomatic sexual headache were secondary to subarachnoid hemorrhage. Although the precipitant was the same, benign and symptomatic headaches differed in several clinical aspects, such as age at onset, associated clinical manifestations, or response to pharmacologic treatment. Although sharing some properties, such as male predominance, benign cough headache and benign exertional headache are clinically separate conditions. Benign cough headache began significantly later, 43 years on average, than benign exertional headache. By contrast, our findings suggest that there is a close relationship between benign exertional headache and benign vascular sexual headache. We conclude that benign and symptomatic cough headaches are different from both benign and symptomatic exertional and sexual headaches.
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PMID:Cough, exertional, and sexual headaches: an analysis of 72 benign and symptomatic cases. 864 40

The aim of this study was to review the advances in cough, exertional and sexual headaches. We perform a critical analysis of the literature and of our experience with 72 patients. About one-half of patients having cough headache will have benign cough headache. The remaining half suffer from Chiari type I malformation. Benign cough headache begins typically in men above age 50, while symptomatic cough headache begins under 50 and appears with the same frequency in both sexes. Indomethacin is the treatment of choice of benign cough headache, but has no effect in symptomatic cases, which respond to suboccipital craniectomy. Although also showing male predominance, exertional and sexual headaches begin under age 50. Subarachnoid bleeding due to aneurism is the most frequent etiology for exertional and sexual headaches. Cough headache and exertional headache are separate clinical entities, whereas exertional headache and sexual headache seem to be different expressions of the same clinical entity. These data allow, in addition, the clinical differentiation between benign and symptomatic cough headache.
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PMID:[Headaches due to cough, exertion and sexual intercourse]. 949 59

Benign cough headache presents as a sudden bilateral, short-lasting pain precipitated by coughing. The diagnosis requires noninvasive brain-imaging so that secondary causes can be ruled out. We describe a man, 57 years of age, complaining of an atypical form of benign cough headache which shares some features with episodic cluster headache. To our knowledge, this is the first description of a link between these two types of idiopathic headache.
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PMID:Benign cough "cluster" headache. 979 4

Benign cough headache is an uncommon primary headache disorder marked by short-lasting attacks of pain triggered by coughing. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain is required to assure that the cough headache is truly benign. The aetiology of the pain is unclear, but is probably associated with the brief increased intracranial pressure that attends coughing. We have reviewed the clinical features, aetiology, differential diagnosis, management, and prognosis of benign cough headache.
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PMID:Benign cough headache. 1248 1