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# Basilar artery dissection
# Basilar artery dissection
# Preeclampsia
# Preeclampsia
# Cerebral venous thrombosis (pregnancy/post-partum)
# [[Cerebral Venous Thrombosis]] (pregnancy/post-partum)
# Hypertensive emergency
# Hypertensive emergency
# Depression
# Depression

Revision as of 17:50, 22 October 2011

Common

  1. Migraine Headache
  2. Tension Headache
  3. Cluster Headache

Killers

  1. Meningitis/encephalitis
  2. SAH / sentinel bleed
  3. Intracranial Hemorrhage (ICH) (subdura/epidural)
  4. Acute obstructive hydrocephalus
  5. Space occupying lesions
  6. Stroke (CVA)
  7. CO poisoning
  8. Basilar artery dissection
  9. Preeclampsia
  10. Cerebral Venous Thrombosis (pregnancy/post-partum)
  11. Hypertensive emergency
  12. Depression

Maimers

  1. Temporal Arteritis (>50yrs & ESR)
  2. Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri)
  3. Acute glaucoma
  4. Acute sinusitis

Others

  1. Trigeminal neuralgia
  2. TMJ pain
  3. Post LP/ low CSF
  4. Dehydration
  5. Analgesia abuse
  6. Eye, dental, or derm cause
  7. Febrile HA
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