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    Airplane headache: An atypical case with autonomic symptoms and long duration
    (Asean Neurological Assoc, 2020) Atac, Ceyla; Ak, Aysin Kisabay; Cetin, Guldeniz; Batum, Melike; Gokcay, Figen; Selcuki, Deniz
    Airplane Headache (AH) which is classified under headache attributed to disorder of homeostasis in International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD)-3 is a severe, unilateral, orbitofrontal headache that occurs during and caused by airplane travel. It remits after landing. AH cases with autonomic symptoms had rarely been reported. We present a 35-year-old male complained of five attacks of right-sided, unilateral, orbitofrontal headache accompanied with lacrimation, conjunctival injection and eye redness ipsilaterally, starting 20-30 minutes prior to landing. The headache duration varied between 30-90 minutes. AH diagnosis was made in the light of anamnesis and neurological examination. The secondary causes and primary headaches with autonomic symptoms were ruled out. As far as we know this is the first reported longer duration AH case with autonomic symptoms in the literature. AH is an underdiagnosed headache. We report this atypical AH case to call attention to this rare but treatable headache.
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    Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) levels in peripheral blood in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension and migraine
    (Elsevier, 2024) Ak, Aysin Kisabay; Gemici, Yagmur Inalkac; Batum, Melike; Karakas, Burak; Ozmen, Eser Yildirim; Gokcay, Figen; Celebisoy, Nese
    Background: Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) plays a dominant role in migraine. This prospective study was designed to investigate CGRP levels in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) and compare the results of migraine patients and healthy controls (HC). As a second objective, CGRP levels obtained from IIH patients defining sustained headache after the resolution of papilledema were compared with those not defining post-IIH headache. Methods: Thirty-six patients with IIH, 36 with episodic migraine (EM), 18 with chronic migraine (CM), and 36 HC were included in the study. CGRP levels were studied from blood samples obtained from the antecubital vein by using a commercial ELISA kit. Results: Serum CGRP levels of the patient groups were significantly higher than the HC (p < 0.001). As compared with controls, both CM (p Adj<0.001) and IIH (p Adj=0.039) had significantly increased levels of CGRP. Levels recorded from EM patients did not differ from the HC (p Adj=0.661). In 16 IIH patients, persistent headache was reported after the normalization of intracranial pressure (ICP). Twenty patients did not report post-IIH headaches. Comparison of serum CGRP levels of these two groups revealed significantly higher CGRP levels in patients with sustained headaches obtained from blood samples both at the initial and control visit (p Adj <0.001). Conclusions: CGRP levels of the patient groups were higher than the HC. High levels recorded in patients with IIH indicates the role of CGRP in IIH related headache and even higher levels in patients with sustained headache after normalization of ICP strengthens this finding.
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    Cognıtıve functıons in idiopathic intracranial hypertensıon
    (Springer Heidelberg, 2024) Ak, Aysin Kisabay; Saritas, Aysegul Seyma; Batum, Melike; Gemici, Yagmur Inalkac; Karakas, Burak; Celebisoy, Nese
    ObjectiveCognitive problems in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is generally overlooked in the presence of disabling headache and threat to visual function. The aim of this study was to search for cognitive deficits in patients with IIH using neuropsychologic tests in addition to P300 potential recordings to assess cognition related brain activity.MethodsFifty IIH patients were examined using Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test, Stroop Test and Visual Aural Digit Span Test to measure different domains of cognition at the time of diagnosis. P300 potentials were recorded by using an oddball paradigm. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale was used to determine anxiety and depression. Quality of life (QoL) was assessed by SF-36. The results were compared with fifty healthy controls with matching age, gender and body mass index.ResultsNeuropsychologic tests revealed wide cognitive impairment including attention, working memory, executive function, naming, language, delayed recall and orientation in IIH patients. In addition, quality of life was affected in the sub-parameters of general health perceptions, emotional role functioning, vitality, mental health and bodily pain. P300 potential latencies were long and the amplitudes were reduced indicating deficits in attention and working memory. Anxiety scores were high, and health-related QoL was low mainly involving vitality, emotional and mental health. Cognitive dysfunction was not correlated with the levels of anxiety and the correlation with headache severity was mild.ConclusionA multidomain cognitive decline mainly involving attention and working memory was recorded in IIH patients. It was not correlated with anxiety and only a mild correlation with headache severity was present which may indicate a casual relationship between raised intracranial pressure and cognitive deficits. Screening is important as neuropsychological rehabilitation might be relevant in these patients.
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    Ischemic chiasmal syndrome associated with posterior communicating artery (PCoA) and tuberothalamic artery (TA) infarction: a case report
    (Springer-Verlag Italia Srl, 2020) Atac, Ceyla; Ak, Aysin Kisabay; Batum, Melike; Ari, Semih; Ovali, Gulgun Yilmaz; Celebisoy, Nese
    Lesions affecting the body of the optic chiasm typically produce bitemporal hemianopia. the blood supply comes from the anterior communicating artery, anterior cerebral, posterior communicating, posterior cerebral, and basilar arteries. We herein report a young patient admitted to the emergency department with acute confusion, left-sided hemiparesis, hemihypoesthesia, and dysarthria. Bitemporal hemianopia was detected after resolution of confusion. on cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), infarction in the right anterolateral thalamus in the territory of tuberothalamic artery (TA) and in posterior chiasma in the territory of the posterior communicating artery (PCoA) was revealed. Cerebral MR angiography showed luminal irregularity of the PCoA. the patient was presented to draw attention to the rare entity ischemic chiasmal syndrome.