Brain imaging with 123I-IMP-SPECT in migraine between attacks
Description
123I-IMP-SPECT brain imaging was performed in patients with classic migraine (n = 5) and migraine accompagnee (n = 18) during the headache-free interval. A regional reduction of tracer uptake into brain was observed in all patients with migraine accompagnee, while in patients with classic migraine only one case showed an area of decreased activity. The most marked alteration was found in a patient with persisting neurological symptoms (complicated migraine). In most cases the areas of decreased tracer uptake corresponded to headache localization as well as to topography of neurologic symptoms during migraine attacks. It may be concluded that migraine attacks occur in connection with exacerbations of preexisting changes of cerebral autoregulation due to endogenous or exogenous factors
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Headache
- Journal Volume
- 29
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Series
- Headache.
- Journal Page Range
- 344-349
- ISSN
- 0017-8748
- CODEN
- HEADA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 21007200
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Descriptors DEI
- AMPHETAMINES; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; IODINE 123; PAIN; PATIENTS; SINGLE PHOTON ECT; VASCULAR DISEASES
- Descriptors DEC
- AMINES; ANALEPTICS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENT; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BODY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DISEASES; DRUGS; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; IODINE ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANS; RADIOISOTOPES; SYMPATHOMIMETICS; SYMPTOMS; TOMOGRAPHY