TY - JOUR
T1 - Migraine preventive therapy
T2 - Selection of appropriate patients and general principles of management
AU - D'Amico, Domenico
AU - Lanteri-Minet, Michel
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The goal of this review is to communicate the rationale and the possible benefits of migraine preventive treatments to clinicians and patients, and to address the many problematic issues created by missed diagnosis or misdiagnoses and inadequate migraine management. Successful implementation of migraine preventive treatment requires appropriate patient selection based on several factors, including the frequency of migraine attacks (≥2-3 attacks/month), the level of disability incurred and the frequency of acute medication usage. Unfortunately, several epidemiologic surveys indicate that preventive therapies are significantly underutilized, which supports the need for greater dialog concerning migraine prevention between consumers and physicians. Effective migraine preventive therapy should reduce the frequency, duration, and severity of migraine, and also improve function, reduce disability, and possibly reduce the risk of worsening the headache syndrome, through acute medication overuse.
AB - The goal of this review is to communicate the rationale and the possible benefits of migraine preventive treatments to clinicians and patients, and to address the many problematic issues created by missed diagnosis or misdiagnoses and inadequate migraine management. Successful implementation of migraine preventive treatment requires appropriate patient selection based on several factors, including the frequency of migraine attacks (≥2-3 attacks/month), the level of disability incurred and the frequency of acute medication usage. Unfortunately, several epidemiologic surveys indicate that preventive therapies are significantly underutilized, which supports the need for greater dialog concerning migraine prevention between consumers and physicians. Effective migraine preventive therapy should reduce the frequency, duration, and severity of migraine, and also improve function, reduce disability, and possibly reduce the risk of worsening the headache syndrome, through acute medication overuse.
KW - Headache
KW - Migraine
KW - Prevention
KW - Prophylaxis
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U2 - 10.1586/14737175.6.8.1147
DO - 10.1586/14737175.6.8.1147
M3 - Article
C2 - 16893343
AN - SCOPUS:33747192872
VL - 6
SP - 1147
EP - 1157
JO - Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics
JF - Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics
SN - 1473-7175
IS - 8
ER -