Headache Disorders: New Advances in Management and Treatment Strategies
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Neurology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 8460
Special Issue Editors
Interests: headache; pain; neuromuscular disorders; epilepsy; neurooncology
Interests: headache; migraine; pain
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The recent market release of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), specifically targeting the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) or its receptor (anti-CGRP MAbs), based on the results of clinical trials and real-life data, appeared as a promising preventative option in both episodic and chronic migraine patients with a much higher efficacy/tolerability ratio, compared to the already available oral and injectable prophylactic treatment of armamentarium. Four anti-CGRP MAbs are currently in use for the prevention of episodic and chronic migraines, including erenumab used to target the CGRP-receptor and fremanezumab, galcanezumab and eptinezumab used to target the CGRP ligand. In addition, anti-CGRP MAbs can be used wth some degree of success as preventives in other headache disorders, such as cluster and post-traumatic headaches. There are, however, unmet needs associated with the prophylactic management of these headache disorders, because of inadequate headache frequency reduction in about one third of migraine patients and an even higher percentage of treatment failure in cluster and post-traumatic headache patients. Significant unmet needs are also present in the symptomatic management of these headache disorders. To overcome these issues, new acute pharmacological options for headaches have been studied in the last few years, including gepants, a class of small molecules that target the CGRP receptor, and ditans, a class of non-triptan serotonin receptor antagonists. Gepants have been also explored in migraine prevention.
The scope of this Special Issue is to summarize our existing knowledge on the pros and cons of modern therapies for headache disorders, to examine open clinical and pathogenetic issues and to explore future perspectives for future research to pursue. As such, both research papers and reviews are welcome. Thank you for agreeing to contribute towards the successful release of this Special Issue for the Journal of Clinical Medicine. The Co-Editors and I are confident that it will become a reference point for all those who want to know why, when, and how to treat headache patients with monoclonal antibodies that target the CGRP, gepants or ditans.
Dr. Andreas A. Argyriou
Dr. Vikelis Michail
Dr. Emmanouil V. Dermitzakis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- headache
- migraine
- cluster headache
- post-traumatic headache
- acute treatment
- prophylaxis
- calcitonin gene-related peptide
- monoclonal antibodies
- gepants
- ditans
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