Publications by authors named "A Yavetz"
Objective: To determine total serum homocysteine levels in a large group of patients with migraine with and without aura.
Background: Hypercoagulable state is a known risk factor for stroke in the young. The existence of a hypercoagulable state has been postulated in migraine and homocysteinemia with young-onset stroke.
Objectives: To evaluate the sleep pattern of migraineurs with chronic daily headache and to determine whether and to what degree it is improved by withdrawal of medication, and to reconfirm relief of headache by withdrawal of medications in migraineurs with chronic daily headache due to medication misuse.
Background: Misuse of ergotamine and analgesics by migraineurs is one of the causes of chronic daily headache. The latter is alleviated or abolished in these patients by abrupt withdrawal of the misused medication.