Headache is one of the causes of calling many patients to clinics. This
disease sometime becomes so persecutor that one is not able to perform
the daily activities. Hence, if the kinds of headache and their causes are
identified, these people can probably be helped in order to have a
comfortable life. The aim if this study was determination of headache
causes in the patients that had referred to Sina hospital in 1998 , with regard
to headache specifications and by means of complement tests to confirm
or refuse the diagnosis.
After designation a questionnaire, the necessary information was
collected by interview and recorded in the question. All of the patients, are
visited in neurologic ward of Sina hospital. For all of the patients a brain
CT-Scan and EEG were perform. This study was a descriptive study.
The results showed that the most common headache was tension
headache (33%) and then migraine type. The proportion of female was 37%
and male was 27%. The mean age of population was 36 years and standard
deviation was 16 years. Approximately 14% were due to organic causes.
The most common was hypertension (21%) and then is cervical
osteoarthrosis (15%).
In this study , we begun to change headache algorithm by means of
complement tests to refuse other diagnosis. To consider headache
specifications in group of ETC and comparison with the diagnosis type, it is
possible to help physicians to change and improve the post headache
approach.
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