Acute headache

Acute headache: Introduction

Acute headache: Headache, or cephalgia, is defined as diffuse pain in various parts of the head, with the pain not confined to the area of distribution of a nerve. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Acute headache is available below.

Symptoms of Acute headache

• Diplopia
• Dimming of vision in a single eye
• Stiff neck
• Disorientation
• Rash
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See full list of 10 symptoms of Acute headache

Treatments for Acute headache

• It depends on the etiological agent causing the acute headache
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Wrongly Diagnosed with Acute headache?

• Failure to diagnose Acute headache
• Hidden causes of Acute headache (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Undiagnosed: Acute headache

Causes of Acute headache

• Head trauma
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Venous thrombosis
• Pseudotumour cerebri
• Intracranial infection
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See full list of 7 causes of Acute headache

More information about causes of Acute headache:

• Underlying causes of Acute headache

Evidence Based Medicine Research for Acute headache

Medical research articles related to Acute headache include:

• Clinical policy: critical issues in the evaluation and management of adult patients presenting to the emergency department with acute headache.
• Diagnosis and management of headache in adults
• C Reactive Protein and the diagnosis of intracranial infection.
• Guidelines for all healthcare professionals in the diagnosis and management of migraine, tension-type, cluster and medication-overuse headache
• Alendronate
• Patent foramen ovale closure Migraine
• CT Head Scanning Indications
• Headache, Migraine (Diagnosis)
• more research...»

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