Case of atrial septal defect closure relieving refractory migraine |
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| Authors: | Yuta Hoshina Hiroyuki Iijima Mitsuru Kubota Tsutomu Murakami Akira Nagai |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of General Pediatrics and Interdisciplinary Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo Japan ; 2. Department of Cardiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Hiratsuka Japan |
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| Abstract: | The effectiveness of patent foramen ovale closure for migraine has been previously discussed. By contrast, very few studies have reported the association between migraine and atrial septal defect closure. Here, we report a case in which atrial septal defect closure effectively relieved migraine headaches. |
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| Keywords: | atrial septal defect migraine patent foramen ovale |
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