title: Clinical review of headache in pregnancy.
abstract: Headache is a common disorder in the general population. Among women, the primary headache form that is more heavily affected by the physiologic hormonal variations occurring through a woman's lifetime is migraine. Migraine without aura (MO) and migraine with aura (MA) show a different clinical pattern during pregnancy. MO improves or disappears while it is not infrequent for women to have their first attack of MA during this period; usually, during pregnancy MA do not improve. In MO women who continue to suffer from migraine during pregnancy, clinical observation and the few data currently available from the literature suggest that in the gestational period their attacks are nonetheless less disabling than those occurring outside this period. Even though the duration of the attacks is unchanged, their severity tends to be mild or moderate. Treatment of migraine during pregnancy is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Headache Centre, Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma, c/o Ospedale Maggiore, Via Gramsci 14, 43126, Parma, Italy. paola.torelli1@unipr.it
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Torelli
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Allais
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Manzoni
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D020773:Headache Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications
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