TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognition and neuropsychiatry in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia by disease stage
AU - Bertoux, Maxime
AU - Ranasinghe, Kamalini G.
AU - Sarazin, Marie
AU - Pasquier, Florence
AU - Bottlaender, Michel
AU - De Souza, Leonardo Cruz
AU - Mioshi, Eneida
AU - Hornberger, Michael
AU - Rankin, Katherine
AU - Lobach, Iryna
AU - Kramer, Joel
AU - Sturm, Virginia
AU - Bettcher, Brianne
AU - Possin, Katherine
AU - You, S Christine
AU - Lamarre, Amanda
AU - Shany-Ur, Tal
AU - Stephens, Melanie
AU - Perry, David
AU - Lee, Suzee
AU - Miller, Zachary
AU - Gorno-Tempini, Maria
AU - Rosen, Howard
AU - Boxer, Adam
AU - Seeley, William
AU - Rabinovici, Gil
AU - Vossel, Keith
AU - Miller, Bruce
PY - 2016/10/4
Y1 - 2016/10/4
N2 - Based on his experience, Dr. Verslegers disagrees with “Long-term use of daily sumatriptan injections in severe drug-resistant chronic cluster headache,” which presented arguments to use sumatriptan injections on a daily basis in refractory patients with cluster headache. Instead, he suggests that ergotamine should be employed when classical treatments fail. Drs. Leone and Proietti Cecchini, authors of the study, argue that ergots are less specific than triptans, have more side effects such as nausea and vomiting, increase the risk of cardiovascular events, and can lead to ergotism when taken frequently. The authors also suggest that neurostimulation procedures can be beneficial in treating intractable chronic cluster headache. Commenting on “Cognition and neuropsychiatry in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia by disease stage,” Bertoux et al. point to the issue …
AB - Based on his experience, Dr. Verslegers disagrees with “Long-term use of daily sumatriptan injections in severe drug-resistant chronic cluster headache,” which presented arguments to use sumatriptan injections on a daily basis in refractory patients with cluster headache. Instead, he suggests that ergotamine should be employed when classical treatments fail. Drs. Leone and Proietti Cecchini, authors of the study, argue that ergots are less specific than triptans, have more side effects such as nausea and vomiting, increase the risk of cardiovascular events, and can lead to ergotism when taken frequently. The authors also suggest that neurostimulation procedures can be beneficial in treating intractable chronic cluster headache. Commenting on “Cognition and neuropsychiatry in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia by disease stage,” Bertoux et al. point to the issue …
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84989815595&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1212/01.wnl.0000503343.29930.76
DO - 10.1212/01.wnl.0000503343.29930.76
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 27698154
AN - SCOPUS:84989815595
VL - 87
SP - 1523
JO - Neurology
JF - Neurology
SN - 0028-3878
IS - 14
ER -