title: Dopplerographic correlates of headaches accompanying the chronic nasal and nasopharyngeal pathology.
abstract: The present study aimed at research of cerebral blood flow in patients with chronic nasal and nasopharyngeal pathology with accompanying headaches before and after appropriate treatment. One hundred and six patients with chronic nasal and nasopharyngeal pathology, aged from 6 to 75 years, 57 male and 49 female have been investigated. According to the type of nasal and nasopharyngeal pathology patients were classified in 5 groups, and were divided in three age categories: 6 -18 years (39 patients), 19- 65 years (38 patients), 66-75 years (29 patients). Headaches were estimated by neurologist before appropriate surgical and conservative treatment, after treatment and 6 months later. Cerebral blood flow was studied before treatment, after treatment and 6 months later by means of Transcranial Dopplerography. Control consisted of 30 age-matched healthy persons. Chronic headaches were established in 63 patients (59%). In all age categories the mean blood velocity in middle cerebral artery, anterior cerebral artery, basilar artery was significantly increased against control (p<0.05), and pulsation index (PI) found to be decreased compared to control. After treatment blood flow velocity in the middle cerebral artery, anterior cerebral artery and in basilar artery in all age groups did not differ significantly from control (p<0.5), and PI was significantly elevated against previous data (p<0.05). Cephalic pains disappeared in 75% of treated patients and 25% noted the significant decrease in pain intensity and frequency. Treatment of chronic nasal and nasopharyngeal pathology can prevent the certain kind of cephalic pains, and improve the clinical course of accompanying headaches.
authors.affiliation: Tbilisi State Medical University Clinic.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Buadze
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Khechinashvili
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beridze
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Khundadze
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alpaidze
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009302:Nasopharyngeal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D009668:Nose Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D018608:Ultrasonography, Doppler; D055815:Young Adult