Sumatriptan-associated myocardial infarction: report of case with attention to potential risk factors.

Vascular headaches are a relatively common phenomenon. Increasing numbers of patients with headache are being considered for treatment with the selective serotonin-receptor agonist sumatriptan succinate because of its potential for pronounced therapeutic efficacy in selected patients. Sumatriptan-associated myocardial infarction occurred in a 50-year-old woman with a history of migraine headaches.

Peduncular hallucinosis as a transient ischemic attack.

Peduncular hallucinosis is characterized by vivid hallucinations associated with organic midbrain disease. In the case reported here, the computed tomography brain scan showed basilar arterial atherosclerotic disease with central and cortical atrophy. Carotid imaging revealed bilateral stenosis.