Publications by authors named "S Foerderreuther"
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- The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of prednisone in treating withdrawal headaches for patients suffering from medication overuse headache (MOH).
- 96 patients with MOH were randomly assigned to receive either 100 mg of prednisone or a placebo for 5 days, while their withdrawal headaches and medication use were monitored for 14 days.
- Results showed that prednisone did not lessen the severity or duration of withdrawal headaches, but it did reduce the need for additional pain relief medication in the first 5 days.
Objectives: We tested whether repetitive magnetic stimulation (rMS) induces an afferent input to the spinocerebral tract in patients with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).
Methods: Cortical and spinal motor evoked potentials (cMEP and sMEP), as well as the contra- and ipsilateral silent period (cCSP and iCSP), were recorded in patients with CRPS type I before and after conditioning rMS, applied at cervical nerve roots innervating affected muscles. Patients were compared with a group of healthy subjects.
Two patients with retroorbital pain syndromes with or without paresis of cranial nerves developed weeks after ipsilateral headache resembling chronic paroxysmal hemicrania (CPH) but without autonomic features. These findings might support the hypothesis that CPH may be caused by a pathological process in the region of the cavernous sinus, as has been proposed for the Tolosa-Hunt syndrome (THS).
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