Acute and prophylactic treatments for migraine: present and future.
Herein I will present general principles of acute-care and preventive therapy of migraine, both in the present and the future. Details of currently used migraine acute-care therapies with their contraindications, drug-drug interactions and adverse events will be presented. Details of migraine preventive therapies with their adverse events and drug-drug interactions will be discussed. Some over-the-counter vitamins, minerals and herbs, used as preventive therapy in migraine, will be discussed. Future treatments in the pipeline will be briefly detailed.
Rapoport
Alan M
AM
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. alanrapoport@gmail.com
D006801:Humans; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends