Reduction of Migraine Attacks During the Use of Warfarin

• Published in: Headache Vol. 37; no. 10; pp. 667 - 668
• Main Author: Fragoso, Yara D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: USA/Oxford, UK American Association for the Study of Headache/Blackwell Science Ltd 01.11.1997; Blackwell
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Anticoagulants - therapeutic use; Biological and medical sciences; Blood. Blood coagulation. Reticuloendothelial system; Female; Heart Diseases - drug therapy; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; migraine; Migraine Disorders - drug therapy; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Pulmonary Embolism - drug therapy; Thrombophlebitis - drug therapy; warfarin; Warfarin - therapeutic use; Human; Nervous system diseases; Warfarin; Coumarine derivatives; Migraine; Cardiovascular disease; Anticoagulant; Cerebral disorder; Vascular disease; Antivitamin K; Improvement; Chemotherapy; Pain; Treatment; Central nervous system disease; Cerebrovascular disease
• ISSN: 0017-8748; 1526-4610
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4610.1997.3710667.x

Two recent reports on reduction of migraine attacks during treatment with vitamin K antagonists have caught my attention.1,2 Being a migraine sufferer myself, with considerable improvement of my headache during the use of warfarin, I became interested in the subject. Recently, a young man sought my advice for migraine attacks which had worsened after the withdrawal of warfarin. The previous reports on migraine and warfarin involved elderly patients.1,2 I report now on these two patients in their 30s, one of them being myself (case 1), who have experienced reduction of migraine attacks during the use of warfarin.