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Migraine Headache in Patients with Sydenham's Chorea

2005; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 25; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1468-2982.2004.00901.x

1468-2982

Antônio Lúcio Teixeira, FC Meira, D e Maia, MC Cunningham, Francisco Cardoso,

Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

We compared the frequency of migraine among Sydenham's chorea (SC) patients, rheumatic fever (RF) patients without neurological symptoms and matched controls. Migraine was more frequent in SC patients (12/55, 21.8%) than in controls (9/110, 8.1%) and as common as in the RF group (10/55, 18.2%). Our data are in agreement with previous studies reporting higher frequency of migraine in other basal ganglia disorders, such as essential tremor and Tourette's syndrome.