Preventive Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen in Cluster Headache

  1. Julio Pascual*,
  2. Galo Peralta,
  3. Ubaldo Sánchez

Article first published online: 18 MAY 2005

DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1995.hed3505260.x

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Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain

Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain

Volume 35, Issue 5, pages 260–261, May 1995

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Pascual, J., Peralta, G. and Sánchez, U. (1995), Preventive Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen in Cluster Headache. Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 35: 260–261. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1995.hed3505260.x

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  1. From the Services of Neurology and Intensive Medicine, University Hospital “Marqués de Valdecilla”, Santander, Spain.

*Dr. Julio Pascual, Service of Neurology, University Hospital “Marqués de Valdecilla”, 39008 Santander, Spain.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 18 MAY 2005
  2. Article first published online: 18 MAY 2005
  3. Accepted for publication September 17, 1994.

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Keywords:

  • cluster headache;
  • hyperbaric chamber;
  • oxygen therap

The effect of a 2-week course of hyperbaric oxygen on both the duration and frequency of cluster headache attacks was tested in four patients suffering from chronic cluster headache with no clear response to pharmacological treatments. Two patients (two courses in one case) dramatically improved while on hyperbaric oxygen treatment, this positive response remaining for 2 and 31 days posttreatment. Case 3 only improved in frequency, while the remaining patient showed no benefit. These findings suggest that daily hyperbaric oxygen treatment can be used as a transient preventive treatment for desperate cluster headache sufferers.

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