Cephalalgia - Volume 11, Number 11

Oration

Restricted accessOrationFirst published June, 1991pp. 345-345

Migraine and Arteriovenous Malformation

Pereira MonteiroM.J. RosasC. Correia

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Abstract

The authors studied the prevalence of headaches in patients with cerebral arteriovenous malformations followed in the Neurosurgical Department of the Hospital Santo Antonio, Porto, Portugal.

The methods used were headache questionnaire and clinic interview. The IHS criteria and classification were used for the diagnostic classification of headaches. From all the patients studied the relative frequency of the different types of headaches was calculated and compared with the general population data.

A correlative study of the headache characteristics with the type and localization of the arteriovenous malformation was performed and the results are presented and discussed.

Some selected cases of migraine type headaches associated with AVM are presented and the effect of surgery is commented.

Abstract

In order to evaluate the effect of psychological stress on immune activity, we examined immune system-associated antigen expressed on peripheral blood lymphocytes in tension-type headache. We found differences between the highly stressed patient group and the minimally stressed. These results support the concept that psychological stress my significantly alter the immune activity in patients suffering from tension-type headache depending upon whether they are highly stressed or not.

June 1991