Headache associated with airplane travel: report of six cases
| Autor: | Bülent Müngen, M S Berilgen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Severe headache medicine.medical_specialty Aircraft Diagnosis Differential 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Trigeminal nerve Headache diagnosis Travel business.industry Trigeminovascular system Headache General Medicine Surgery Paranasal sinuses medicine.anatomical_structure Barotrauma Anesthesia Neurology (clinical) business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache. 26(6) |
| ISSN: | 0333-1024 |
| Popis: | This study presents six cases of headache that appeared only during flights and was not associated with other headache forms. The cases had severe headache attacks during some flights, when the plane was landing and taking off, with a unilateral and generally orbital and/or supraorbital localization. The attacks lasted between 15 and 20 min on average and recovered spontaneously, without any accompanying sign. We think that barotrauma caused by pressure changes in the cabin during take-off and landing could affect ethmoidal nerves (branching from the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve) that carry the senses of the mucosa on the inner surface of the paranasal sinuses, and/or nociceptors in ethmoidal arteries, thereby activating the trigeminovascular system and leading to headache. |
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