title: Subcutaneous sumatriptan in an adolescent with acute posttraumatic headache.
abstract: Acute posttraumatic headache is common and can evolve into chronic posttraumatic headache, which is associated with medication overuse and disability. However, there are few studies to guide treatment management of acute posttraumatic headache. We describe an adolescent with acute posttraumatic headache that did not respond to several initial medications but had rapid and sustained improvement in headache and associated migrainous features with subcutaneous sumatriptan.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. abend@email.chop.edu
authors.forename: Nicholas S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Abend
authors.forename: Michael L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Nance
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bonnemann
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D007279:Injections, Subcutaneous / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D051298:Post-Traumatic Headache / Q000188:drug therapy*; D017366:Serotonin Receptor Agonists / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D018170:Sumatriptan / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D017366:Serotonin Receptor Agonists; D018170:Sumatriptan