Dizziness and Orthostatic Intolerance In Pediatric Headache Patients.

Children and adolescents with headaches commonly complain of dizziness that creates significant distress among the patients and their families. Dizziness is largely due to either orthostatic intolerance or vertigo; this distinction is the initial step in the evaluation of a child with co-occurrence of headaches and dizziness. Vertiginous symptoms are most commonly due to vestibular migraine or benign positional vertigo.

Complementary and Integrative Approaches for Pediatric Headache.

In this article, the use of complementary and integrative medicine for the management of pediatric headache is reviewed. Despite limited numbers of studies for pediatric headaches, children and families seek these services. Integrative medicine focuses on treating the whole person, integrating conventional medicine with mind-body-spirit methods.

Monthly variation of United States pediatric headache emergency department visits.

Objective: The objective of this article is to determine the monthly variation of emergency department (ED) visits for pediatric headache. We hypothesized youth have increased headache-related ED visits in the months associated with school attendance.

Methods: Using a United States representative sample of ED visits in the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey from 1997 to 2009, we estimated number of visits associated with ICD-9 codes related to headache, migraine, status migrainosus, or tension-type headache in 5- to 18-year-olds.

Intravenous magnesium as acute treatment for headaches: a pediatric case series.

Background: Acute i.v. treatment for pediatric headache varies widely.

Late cytotoxic edema in 2 children with hemiplegia: hemiplegic migraine or stroke?

Hemiplegic migraine (HM) is a rare variant of migraine with aura, characterized by migrainous headache and fully reversible motor deficit within 24 hours. Both sporadic and familial forms of HMs are genetically heterogenous with little information on neuroimaging during and after acute attacks. We report 2 cases of children with presumed HM and late cytotoxic edema.

Pediatric neurological complications of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1).

Objective: To analyze the spectrum of neurological manifestations in children hospitalized with pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus of 2009 (pH1N1).

Design: Retrospective case series of children hospitalized from May 1, 2009, through November 30, 2009.

Setting: Tertiary-care children's hospital in Colorado.