Headache as the Presenting Symptom in 2 Patients with COVID‐19 and a History of Migraine: 2 Case Reports
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Ashhar Ali; Jyotika Singh
- Source
- Headache
Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain
- Subject
- Adult
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Time Factors
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Fever
Headache Disorders
Migraine Disorders
Clinical Neurology
Disease
Brief Communication
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Diagnosis, Differential
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
COVID‐19
Diabetes mellitus
Nasopharynx
Pandemic
medicine
Neurologic
Headache Disorders, Secondary
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Asymptomatic Infections
Pandemics
Migraine
Analgesics
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
Headache
Persistent headache
COVID-19
medicine.disease
Neurology
COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Testing
Symptoms
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Differential diagnosis
business
Brief Communications
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1526-4610
0017-8748
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has now affected more than five million people globally. Typical symptoms include fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Patients with underlying medical comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes are more likely to become severely ill. To date there is limited information on how COVID‐19 affects patients with a history migraine. Here, we present the cases of 2 women with a history of migraine whose first symptom of COVID‐19 was a severe persistent headache.