Characteristics of Migraine Visual Aura

Queiroz, Luiz Paulo; Rapoport, Alan M.; Weeks, Randall E.; Sheftell, Fred D.; Siegel, Sheryl E.; Baskin, Steven M.

doi:10.1046/j.1526-4610.1997.3703137.x

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“…In our MWA group, the most common aura symptoms reported were visual and our results were similar to those in previous epidemiologic studies (Lee and Olness 1997;Queiroz et al 1997;Roh et al 1998;Lipton et al 2001). Our subjects reported similar incidences of associated symptoms (phonophobia, nausea, and photophobia) reported from previous studies (Rasmussen 1993;Queiroz et al 1997;Lipton et al 2001;Mattson 2003). The clinical characteristics of migraine was found to be different than the study conducted by Köseo ğlu et al (2003); a higher ratio of phonophobia and a lower ratio of nausea were found in our study.…”

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Prevalence and Characteristics of Migraine in Women of Reproductive Age in Istanbul, Turkey: A Population Based Survey

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Koçer

Lüleci

et al. 2005

Tohoku J. Exp. Med.

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Migraine is more common in female and onset of migraine is most commonly seen in the second and third decades of life. In this study, we aimed to estimate the prevalence and characteristics of migraine among women of ages between 15 to 45 years in Turkey. This is the first study to target this age group. The women were interviewed on a door-to-door basis, from early morning to late evening. Once responded positively to headache, an in-depth interview was performed questioning for migraine features. Diagnosis was made from a questionnaire by eight neurologists. One thousand eight hundred thirty five (1,835) out of 96,000 women living in Maltepe which is a town of Istanbul participated in this study. The prevalence of migraine in females aged 15-45 (reproductive ages) was 15.8% (95% CI, 0.142-0.176). This study showed that migraine onset occurred at a mean age of 22.7, 33% having family history, and with migraine with and without aura having near equal frequencies. The prevalence of migraine in women of reproductive ages in Istanbul as found in our study is lower than that reported in United States and Europe countries, but higher than that in Middle and Far Eastern countries. migraine; women of reproductive ages; prevalence; Turkey © 2005 Tohoku University Medical PressHeadache is one of the most common complaints of patients presented to physicians and migraine is a commonly seen headache form in general practice. To date, in order to determine the prevalence of migraine headache, many population-based studies have been performed using different data collection methods. There are a large variety of the prevalence rates among community-based migraine prevalence studies. According to previous prevalence studies for migraine headache, estimates ranged from 1.5% to 33%, variations possibly originating from definitions and study design (Wong et al. 1995;Launer et al. 1999;Rasmussen 2001). These variations can be explained by differences in case definition, sociodemographic profiles of subjects,

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Prevalence and Characteristics of Migraine in Women of Reproductive Age in Istanbul, Turkey: A Population Based Survey

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Koçer

Lüleci

et al. 2005

Tohoku J. Exp. Med.

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“…Wilkinson (2004) has reviewed migraine visual aura in the context of other visual hallucinations and suggested how these might relate to the neural mechanism of aura. Queiroz et al (1997) showed that visual aura accompanied the patient's first headache in 39% of patients but only 19% had visual aura with every attack. The free period between visual aura and head pain was <30 min in 75% of cases.…”

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The optometric correlates of migraine

Harle

Evans

2004

Ophthalmic Physiologic Optic

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Migraine is a common, chronic, multi-factorial, neuro-vascular disorder typically characterised by recurrent attacks of unilateral, pulsating headache and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. Migraine may additionally be associated with aura; those focal neurological symptoms that may precede or sometimes accompany the headache. This review describes the optometric aspects of migraine headache. There have been claims of a relationship between migraine headaches and errors of refraction, binocular vision anomalies, pupil anomalies, visual field changes and pattern glare. The quality of the evidence for a relationship between errors of refraction and binocular vision and migraine is poor. The quality of the evidence to suggest a relationship between migraine headache and pupil anomalies, visual field defects and pattern glare is stronger. In particular the link between migraine headache and pattern glare is striking. The therapeutic use of precision-tinted spectacles to reduce pattern glare (visual stress) and to help some migraine sufferers is described.

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“…Disturbances of visual perception are the least frequent and include foggy vision, tunnel vision, the perception of looking through heat waves or water, mosaic, and, rarely, complex visual hallucinations. 49 Sensory, aphasic, and motor aurae occur in 20%, 11%, and 4% of patients, respectively. One establishes a diagnosis of migraine with typical aura when one of these aurae or a homonymous visual disturbance is present.…”

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confidence: 99%