Pharmacological approaches to managing migraine and associated comorbidities—clinical considerations for monotherapy versus polytherapy

SD Silberstein, D Dodick, F Freitag… - … : The Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Comorbidity is defined as an illness that occurs more frequently in association with a specific
disorder than would be found as a coincidental association in the general population …

The medical management of migraine

ME Bigal, RB Lipton… - American journal of …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Migraine is a common, chronic neurologic disorder that affects 11% of the adult population
in Western countries. In this article, we review the current approaches to the pharmacologic …

Optimizing migraine therapy: evidence-based and patient-centered care

ML Diamond, RG Wenzel… - Expert Review of …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Migraine is a chronic, intermittently debilitating neurovascular condition that affects the
physical, mental and social aspects of health-related quality of life. Primary care provider …

[HTML][HTML] The pharmacological management of migraine, part 1: overview and abortive therapy

G DeMaagd - Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Migraine is the most common headache complaint in clinical practice. Part 1 of a two-part
series presents a summary of treatments used to reduce the severity and duration of …

Migraine: preventive treatment

SD Silberstein, PJ Goadsby - Cephalalgia, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Migraine is a common episodic headache disorder. A comprehensive headache treatment
plan includes acute attack treatment to relieve pain and impairment and long-term …

Treatment recommendations for migraine

SD Silberstein - Nature Clinical Practice Neurology, 2008 - nature.com
The pharmacological treatment of migraine can be acute or preventive. Acute treatment
attempts to stop the progression of an attack or relieve pain and functional impairment once …

Rational combination therapy in refractory migraine

BL Peterlin, AH Calhoun, S Siegel… - … : The Journal of Head …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Refractory migraine (RM) headaches pose important treatment challenges to the patients
who live with them and the clinicians who try to treat them. Defined based on the lack of …

Considerations for management of migraine symptoms in the primary care setting

SD Silberstein - Postgraduate medicine, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Migraine is a common disabling brain disorder that affects one in seven US citizens
annually. The burden of migraine is substantial, both in economic terms and for individual …

New therapeutic developments in chronic migraine

BV Lovell, MJ Marmura - Current opinion in neurology, 2010 - journals.lww.com
This review explains advances in the treatment of chronic migraine, a common disorder
seen in neurological practice. These new advances in preventive treatment and a better …

[HTML][HTML] The pharmacological management of migraine, part 2: preventative therapy

G Demaagd - Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Migraine, its pathophysiology, and abortive (acute) pharmacotherapy were described in Part
1 of this two-part series in the July issue of P&T. Part 2 discusses the role of preventative …