Cerebrovascular diseases and cephalalgia

Ye.V. Yekusheva

Federal Scientific Clinical Center of the Federal Medical Biological Academy, Moscow

Cerebrovascular diseases (CVDs) and cephalalgia (CA) are common causes of patients seeking medical care. CVDs are one of the most socially significant problem in the modern world due to the wide prevalence, high mortality and disability incidences. Among all the existing options for pain syndrome, CA takes one of the leading positions: about 90% of the population experienced a headache at least once in a lifetime, and in 25–40% of cases, it was chronic. Commonly, patients with CVDs and complaints of CA visit general practitioners, primary care physicians and neurologists, whose main task is to establish the correct diagnosis and assign an effective treatment. These comorbid disorders are in the area of special attention of different medical specialists. The most effective and strategically significant management tactics of this comorbid patient category is considered to be a comprehensive and multidisciplinary  approach, including therapy with drugs with proven efficacy, safety and a wide therapeutic spectrum. The article presents clinical pictures in patients with complaints of CA and chronic cerebrovascular ischaemia diagnosis and describes the management tactics of such patients.

Keywords: cerebrovascular diseases, cerebrovascular accident, chronic cerebrovascular ischaemia, cephalalgia, Vasobral.

For citation: Yekusheva Ye.V. Cerebrovascular diseases and cephalalgia. RMJ. 2019;9:11–16.