Headache characteristics to screen for cervicocerebral artery dissection in patients with acute onset unusual headache

Author:

Hashimoto Yukishige1ORCID,Matsushige Toshinori1,Kawano Reo2,Yoshiyama Michitsura1,Hara Takeshi1,Kobayashi Shohei1,Ono Chiaki3,Sakamoto Shigeyuki4,Horie Nobutaka4

Affiliation:

1. Department of Neurosurgery and Interventional Neuroradiology Hiroshima City North Medical Center Asa Citizens Hospital Hiroshima Japan

2. Innovation Center for Translational Research National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology Obu Japan

3. Department of Radiology Hiroshima City North Medical Center Asa Citizens Hospital Hiroshima Japan

4. Department of Neurosurgery Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences Hiroshima University Hiroshima Japan

Abstract

AbstractObjectivesThe aim of this preplanned primary analysis was to investigate the clinical manifestations of headache to screen for CAD patients with acute onset headache only.BackgroundSpontaneous cervicocerebral artery dissection (CAD) with acute onset headache is not rare in clinical practice; however, it is underdiagnosed. On the other hand, subsequent infarction or subarachnoid hemorrhage mainly occurs within 1 week of headache onset.MethodsBetween April 2017 and January 2022, we conducted a single‐center, cross‐sectional retrospective study on 197 consecutive referred patients from neurosurgical outpatient clinics with acute onset unusual headache (stronger or longer headache than usual). All patients underwent magnetic resonance imaging to screen for secondary headache and were diagnosed based on the diagnostic protocol. We examined patient background data and the following headache characteristics: distribution, condition at the onset of headache, accompanying vomiting or nausea, worsening headache, and analgesic effects against headache. These factors were analyzed to identify independent diagnostic predictors of CAD. In this study, the rate of missing data was 41% for improvement of headache by analgesia and multiple imputation by chained equations was performed.ResultsA total of 93 patients (46 men and 47 women; mean age: 48 years, range: 25–73 years) were diagnosed with CAD. Univariate logistic regression analysis showed CAD was associated with current smoking, systolic blood pressure >140 mmHg, unilateral headache, worsening headache, and no headache improvement by analgesia. Unilateral, worsening headache and no headache improvement by analgesia remained independent diagnostic predictors in multivariable logistic regression after multiple imputation. No headache improvement by analgesia had the highest sensitivity (86%), while worsening headache had the highest specificity (84%).ConclusionsCAD needs to be considered in patients with unilateral, worsening headache and no headache improvement by analgesia.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Neurology (clinical),Neurology

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