Headache and Visceral Pain: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis

Dear Colleagues,

Visceral pain and headaches are common clinical conditions. They affect a large proportion of the global population and often co-exist in the same patients. Some examples are represented by the co-occurrence of cardiac pain and migraine, functional gastrointestinal disorders and migraines and/or tension-type headaches, pain from the female reproductive organs and migraines, and urinary pain and different forms of headache. This frequent comorbidity pattern suggests some possible common underlying mechanisms between the conditions and also has important implications for the management of the global pain burden of the patient.

This Special Issue focuses on the clinical diagnosis, pathophysiology, and therapeutic aspects of the most frequent visceral pain–headache associations based on the most recent data of the literature.

You are welcome to submit your work to this Special Issue!

Dr. Claudio Tana
Dr. Giannapia Affaitati
Dr. Raffaele Costantini
Prof. Dr. Maria Adele Giamberardino
Guest Editors

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