Cluster headache with Brugada electrocardiogram pattern: a case report

• Published in: Journal of headache and pain Vol. 9; no. 4; pp. 249 - 251
• Main Authors: Matsuki, Yuka, Hirose, Munetaka, Nakano, Akira, Sarasawa, Katsuhiko, Hamada, Toshio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Milan Springer Milan 01.08.2008; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Brief Report; Brugada Syndrome - complications; Case studies; Cluster Headache - complications; Drug therapy; Headaches; Humans; Internal Medicine; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neurology; Pain management; Pain Medicine; Vascular diseases and vascular malformations of the nervous system; Cluster headache; Brugada electrocardiogram pattern; Clonazepam; Codein; Nervous system diseases; Arrhythmia; Cardiovascular disease; Brugada electrocardiogram pattern . Clonazepam; Cerebral disorder; Vascular disease; Case study; Chemotherapy; Pain; Treatment; Central nervous system disease; Electrocardiography; Cerebrovascular disease
• ISSN: 1129-2369; 1129-2377
• DOI: 10.1007/s10194-008-0049-3

Agents including the effect on sodium channel are restricted in patients with Brugada electrocardiogram (ECG) pattern or Brugada syndrome. On the other hand, many therapeutic agents for cluster headache (CH) block sodium channel. After recommended therapies without sodium channel blocking effect were failed in a 40-year-old male with CH whose ECG shows Brugada ECG pattern, clonazepam and codein phosphate, which are exceptional treatments for CH, were effective for severe unilateral orbital pain.