Chronic Migraine in Adolescence

Abstract

Chronic migraine (CM) is a clinically and epidemiologically important disease that generates considerable impairment to those affected by it, since there is evidence of higher incidence of depression, anxiety, and chronic pain in patients with this condition. It is characterized by the occurrence of headache for at least 8 migraine days in a month and at least 15 headache days in the same month. Despite the similarity in CM presented in adults, when in adolescents it has some particularities. Thus, the aim of this chapter was to conduct a literature review, using the databases: PubMed, SciELO, and LILACS, in addition to text books, explaining the definition, epidemiology, risk factors, diagnosis, pathophysiology, treatment, and prevention of CM in adolescent population.

Pediatric Chronic Orofacial Pain: A Narrative Review of Biopsychosocial Associations and Treatment Approaches

“…The overall prevalence of migraine with or without aura (according to the presence of reversible visual and/or sensory and/or speech symptoms without motor weakness for < 1 h) in youth varies from 7.7% (44) to 9.1% (37,50). Conversely, headache attacks occurring on 15 or more days per month for more than 3 months, with at least eight migraine days per month, are classified as chronic migraine (36), with a prevalence of 1.5-2% (51). Migraine usually presents as uni-or bilateral throbbing of moderate to severe pain, often located on the forehead (52).…”