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Headache and Visceral Pain: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis
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Headache and Visceral Pain: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 1633

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Claudio Tana

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Headache Center, Geriatrics Clinic, SS Annunziata Hospital, Chieti, Italy
Interests: internal medicine; rare disorders; sarcoidosis; clinical imaging; ultrasound
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Dr. Giannapia Affaitati

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Headache Center, Geriatrics Clinic, and Department of Innovative Technologies in Medicine and Dentistry, and Center for Advanced Studies and Technology (CAST), G. D'Annunzio University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy
Interests: internal medicine; pain; headache; comorbidity; visceral pain
Dr. Raffaele Costantini

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Institute of Surgical Pathology, Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, G D'Annunzio University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy
Interests: surgery; pain; headache; comorbidity; visceral pain
Prof. Dr. Maria Adele Giamberardino

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Headache Center, Geriatrics Clinic, Department of Medicine and Science of Aging and Center for Advanced Studies and Technology (CAST), G. D'Annunzio University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy
Interests: internal medicine; rare disorders; pain; headache; sarcoidosis; comorbidity; visceral pain

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Visceral pain and headaches are common clinical conditions. They affect a large proportion of the global population and often co-exist in the same patients. Some examples are represented by the co-occurrence of cardiac pain and migraine, functional gastrointestinal disorders and migraines and/or tension-type headaches, pain from the female reproductive organs and migraines, and urinary pain and different forms of headache. This frequent comorbidity pattern suggests some possible common underlying mechanisms between the conditions and also has important implications for the management of the global pain burden of the patient.

This Special Issue focuses on the clinical diagnosis, pathophysiology, and therapeutic aspects of the most frequent visceral pain–headache associations based on the most recent data of the literature.

You are welcome to submit your work to this Special Issue!

Dr. Claudio Tana
Dr. Giannapia Affaitati
Dr. Raffaele Costantini
Prof. Dr. Maria Adele Giamberardino
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • visceral pain
  • headache
  • cardiac pain
  • migraine
  • urinary pain
  • clinical diagnosis
  • pain comorbidities

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Pain from Internal Organs and Headache: The Challenge of Comorbidity
by Giannapia Affaitati, Raffaele Costantini, Michele Fiordaliso, Maria Adele Giamberardino and Claudio Tana
Diagnostics 2024, 14(16), 1750; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14161750 - 12 Aug 2024
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Headache and visceral pain are common clinical painful conditions, which often co-exist in the same patients. Numbers relative to their co-occurrence suggest possible common pathophysiological mechanisms. The aim of the present narrative review is to describe the most frequent headache and visceral pain [...] Read more.
Headache and visceral pain are common clinical painful conditions, which often co-exist in the same patients. Numbers relative to their co-occurrence suggest possible common pathophysiological mechanisms. The aim of the present narrative review is to describe the most frequent headache and visceral pain associations and to discuss the possible underlying mechanisms of the associations and their diagnostic and therapeutic implications based on the most recent evidence from the international literature. The conditions addressed are as follows: visceral pain from the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and urogenital areas and primary headache conditions such as migraine and tension-type headache. The most frequent comorbidities involve the following: cardiac ischemic pain and migraine (possible shared mechanism of endothelial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and genetic and hormonal factors), functional gastrointestinal disorders, particularly IBS and both migraine and tension-type headache, primary or secondary dysmenorrhea and migraine, and painful bladder syndrome and headache (possible shared mechanisms of peripheral and central sensitization processes). The data also show that the various visceral pain–headache associations are characterized by more than a simple sum of symptoms from each condition but often involve complex interactions with the frequent enhancement of symptoms from both, which is crucial for diagnostic and treatment purposes. Full article
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