Migraine and Stroke in Childhood and Adolescence

Abstract

Over 3 years we evaluated two patients, an adolescent and a child, with migraine-like headache and ischemic stroke. Based on our clinical observations and on liter: review of migraine and stroke in the pediatric age group, we believe that the criteria of migrainous infarction outlined by the International Headache Society (IHS) could be occasionally too restrictive Therefore, we suggest subclassifying migrainous infarction into: (i) “definite”, referring to the patient: ischemic stroke fulfills all the IHS criteria, (ii) “possible”, referring to ischemic strokes which I 1 some, but not all, criteria. This subclassification of migrainous infarction may be relevant in cal practice and in human research studies.