'Bad trips': airplane headache not just in airplanes?
A type of headache associated with altitude variations in airplane travellers is increasingly reported and has recently become a subject of debate for experts. We present a patient with headache related to altitude variations in two different settings: airplane and mountain descent, suggesting that different kinds of triggers for pressure variation can cause the same type of pain.
Coutinho
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Department of Neurology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal. estercoutinho@gmail.com
Pereira-Monteiro
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D000401:Aircraft; D000531:Altitude; D001274:Atmospheric Pressure; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence