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IHS Diagnosis ICD-10
6.5.3 Carotid angioplasty headache G44.810  

Diagnostic criteria:

  1. Any new acute headache fulfilling criteria C and D
  2. Extra- or intracranial angioplasty has been performed
  3. Headache, in the absence of dissection, develops during or within a week of angioplasty
  4. Headache resolves within 1 month

Comments:

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) and stenting versus surgery are presently undergoing randomised trials. Data on headache are still scarce and headache is not mentioned in large series of carotid PTA. In a small series of 53 patients, cervical pain occurred in 51% of patients and head pain in 33% during balloon inflation. It mostly disappeared within seconds of balloon deflation.

Headache as part of a hyperperfusion syndrome (see 6.5.2 Post-endarterectomy headache) has also been reported after carotid PTA.

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