Do paroxysmal hemicrania and hemicrania continua represent different headaches? A retrospective study.

Objective: Hemicrania continua and paroxysmal hemicrania are considered different headaches belonging to a group of trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias. However, they share many clinical features. Both headaches also show complete response to indomethacin, which is a mandatory criterion for their diagnosis.

Oxidative stress in status epilepticus: A clinical-radiological correlation.

Purpose: To report oxidative stress in the patients with status epilepticus (SE), and correlate these with severity, MRI and outcome.

Methods: Thirty-five patients with SE and 34 controls were included. Blood sample was collected at admission for measuring superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase, protein carbonyl, glutathione, total antioxidant capacity (TAC), malondialdehyde (MDA) and nitric oxide (NO).