Post-traumatic Headache: Pharmacologic Management and Targeting CGRP Signaling

Håkan Ashina, David W Dodick*

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde
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Abstract

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Post-traumatic headache is a common sequela of injury to the head and/or neck. Here, we review the current approach to pharmacologic management of post-traumatic headache and explore the therapeutic promise of targeting calcitonin gene-related peptide signaling to address unmet treatment needs.

RECENT FINDINGS: The scarcity of data from controlled trials has left clinicians to rely on mainly expert opinion for the pharmacologic management of post-traumatic headache. The current view is that a phenotype-guided approach should be used, in which patients are treated according to the primary headache phenotype that their clinical features resemble the most (e.g. migraine, tension-type headache). Moreover, incremental advances are being made in the field that aim to identify possible cellular and molecular drivers of headache persistence. Calcitonin gene-related peptide has emerged as a key drug target which, in turn, has prompted novel insights on the potential importance of early initiation of pharmacologic treatment following the onset of post-traumatic headache. This, in turn, might prevent subsequent persistence and chronification of headache.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports
Vol/bind22
Udgave nummer2
Sider (fra-til)105-111
Antal sider7
ISSN1528-4042
DOI
StatusUdgivet - feb. 2022

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