PubMed · 6404777
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G Y Chang. 1983. Vascular headache.. https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.1983.11702523
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In cluster headache, subcutaneous administration of sumatriptan has been established as an efficient, safe and well tolerated treatment for acute attacks. For prophylactic treatment, capsaicin (intranasal administration) and leuprolide (a synthetic slow-release gonadotrophin-releasing hormone) seem to be promising. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy seems to be effective in acute attacks, but it is of interest mostly because of its apparent interruption of the cluster period in some patients. In chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, which clinically resembles cluster headache, indomethacin is still necessary for diagnosis, and it is the treatment of choice in most patients. However, because of its potential side effects, alternative treatments should be sought.
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Nine patients with the SUNCT syndrome (Spanish and Norwegian patients) have, over many years, been given several drugs effective in the cluster headache syndrome, trigeminal neuralgia, and other headaches, as well as drugs not previously used in headache. Various cranial nerves were also anesthetized in an endeavor to ameliorate the suffering of those patients. Although a partial effect was obtained with carbamazepine and corticosteroids in some patients, none of the drugs or anesthetic blockades had consistent, lasting, complete effect on headache paroxysms in SUNCT. The essentially negative outcome of this study aids in further characterizing SUNCT as a separate disorder, and, above all, in distinguishing it from trigeminal neuralgia and the cluster headache syndrome.