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Case Reports
. 1999 May;19(4):241-2.
doi: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.1999.019004241.x.

Prolonged migraine aura without headache arrested by sumatriptan. A case report with further considerations

P A Kowacs  1 , E J Piovesan, C E Tatsui, M C Lange, L C Ribas, L C Werneck
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Prolonged migraine aura without headache arrested by sumatriptan. A case report with further considerations

P A Kowacs et al. Cephalalgia. 1999 May.

Abstract

The case of a 42-year-old woman with prolonged migraine visual aura without headache, whose long-lasting episodes of visual aura were successfully controlled by oral sumatriptan, is reported. Effectiveness of sumatriptan was unequivocal, since, after taking sumatriptan, duration of aura would drop from 1.5 h to approximately 20 min. This case suggests that sumatriptan may cross the blood-brain barrier and block spreading depression.

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