Ventricular tachycardia during basilar-type migraine attack

Ther Adv Neurol Disord. 2013 Jan;6(1):35-40. doi: 10.1177/1756285612463625.

Abstract

Autonomic dysfunction is a characteristic of migraine attacks, rarely, even cardiac repolarization abnormalities have been associated with migraine. We report a case of documented ventricular tachycardia during basilar-type migraine attack. The therapeutic implications of such a co-occurrence as well as a possible relationship between ventricular tachycardia and the underlying biology of basilar-type migraine are discussed.

Keywords: autonomic dysfunction; basilar-type migraine; cardiac arrhythmia; ventricular tachycardia.