[Treatment of migraine]

Med Arh. 2004;58(3):171-3.
[Article in Bosnian]

Abstract

The epidemiological parameters of the migraene headaches with the occurrence in the most productive life age with the subjective intensive experience of the characteristic pain in migraene headaches are the reason of interest for migraene as the headache "sui generis" from the pathological and therapeutic aspect. The diagnosis of migraene is put according the criteria for migraene headaches. In persons who suffer from migraene it is certainly, that besides the family anamnesis and the solalled precipiting factors there are also the tresh hold for migraene attack to which the basic change in serotonin generator in the brain branch. In the therapeutic approach are used the profilacted and therapeutic measures. The agents which act as agonists 5-HT 1 receptors have simptomatic effects in migraena, while antagonists of 5-HT 2 recetors are-successful in the prophilaxis. Selective agonist 5-HT 1 receptor is sumatrypane and has broken the more year sterotipy in the treatment of the migraene, while the more recent agonists receptors 5-HT 1D alfa and 5-HT D1berta receptor rizatriptan, zolmitriptan, naratriptan show clearly the therapeutic aim of the treatment or migraene influence on the serotoenergic generator of the brain branch and the consecutive change of the cerebral circulation.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Migraine Disorders / drug therapy*
  • Migraine Disorders / prevention & control