Naratriptan in the preventive treatment of cluster headache.

Author(s): Mulder LJ, Spierings EL

Affiliation(s): Department of Neurology, Ikazia Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Publication date & source: 2002-12, Cephalalgia., 22(10):815-7.

Publication type: Case Reports

We describe the preventive use of naratriptan, mostly as add-on to high-dose verapamil treatment, in nine patients with cluster headache. The addition of the naratriptan further improved the headaches in seven of the nine patients.