Horton disease

Introduction: Horton disease

Description of Horton disease

Horton disease (medical condition): Headache that occurs periodically, with active...more »

See also:

Cluster headache:
  »Introduction: Cluster headache
  »Symptoms of Cluster headache
  »Causes of Cluster headache
  »Treatments for Cluster headache

Horton disease: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Horton disease:

• Horton
• Horton disease
• Horton syndrome

Horton disease: Rare Disease

Ophanet

Ophanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when if affects 1 person per 2,000. They list Horton disease as a "rare disease".

Source - Orphanet

Horton disease as a Disease

Horton disease: Another name for Cluster headache (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Cluster headache
  »Symptoms of Cluster headache
  »Causes of Cluster headache
  »Treatments for Cluster headache

Horton disease: Related Diseases

Horton disease: Horton disease is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Headache
• Head Conditions
• Pain conditions
• Nervous system conditions
• Headache and migraine conditions

Causes of Horton disease

Some of the causes of Horton disease are included in the list below:

• Unknown

Read more about causes of Horton disease (Cluster headache)

Symptoms of Horton disease (Cluster headache)

Some of the symptoms of Horton disease incude:

• Headache
• Excruciating headache - usually over one eye and on the forehead.
• One-sided headache
• Pain around one eye and shooting to the top of the head
• Eye pain - cluster headaches may begin as pain around an eye

See full list of 34 symptoms of Horton disease (Cluster headache)

Treatments for Horton disease (Cluster headache)

Treatments for Horton disease (Cluster headache) include:

• Medications
• Sumatriptan
• Dihydroergotamine (injected) - a form of ergotamine tartrate
• Methysergide
• Corticosteroids - pills or injections

See full list of 9 treatments for Horton disease

Treatment of Horton disease: For more treatment information about Horton disease, see treatment of Cluster headache (Horton disease)

Horton disease: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Horton disease:

• Bing-Horton syndrome
• histaminic cephalalgia
• cluster migraine
• paroxysmal nocturnal cephalalgia
• red migraine
• erythromelalgia of the head
• sphenopalatine neuralgia
• migrainous neuralgia
• periorbital pain

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