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Efficacy Of Memantine In Treating Patients With Migraine And Tension-Type Headache, Sameen Khalid, Bashir A Soomro, Samreen Mahmood, Aamer Abbass
Efficacy Of Memantine In Treating Patients With Migraine And Tension-Type Headache, Sameen Khalid, Bashir A Soomro, Samreen Mahmood, Aamer Abbass
Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)
Objective:
To assess the efficacy of Memantine as a preventive and therapeutic intervention for migraine and tension-type headache.
Methods:
This clinical trial was conducted over a period of 3 months. A total of 44 subjects, with diagnosed migraine and/or tension-type headache, presenting to a private neurology clinic in Karachi, Pakistan were selected through purposive sampling technique. Patients were treated with incremental doses of Memantine. Adult patients belonging to both genders were included in the study. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 16.0 and associations were made using Chi square test with p-value of less than 0.05 taken as significant. …