Vascular headache

Vascular headache refers to a clinical syndrome caused by vasomotor dysfunction of the head and dysfunction of the cerebral cortex, or temporary changes in certain body fluids. It is characterized by paroxysmal throbbing, tenderness, or drilling pain in one or both temporal parts, and may be accompanied by symptoms of vascular autonomic dysfunction such as visual hallucinations, photophobia, blindness, nausea and vomiting. It includes headaches caused by migraine, cluster headache, hypertensive headache, cerebrovascular disease (such as subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage, arteriovenous malformation, temporal arteritis, etc.).

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