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Cluster Headache

Summary of cluster headache characteristics and update on abortive treatments utilizing first-line and second-line medications.

Preventive Therapies for Cluster Headaches

Cluster headaches are painful, so prevention of cluster headaches is important to patients. Read a discussion of cluster headache prevetion.

Acute Treatment of Cluster Headache

Sumatriptan 6mg subcutaneous is approved in a variety of countries for the acute treatment of migraine headache. Additionally, it is approved for the acute treatment of cluster headache attacks in the United States as the result of clinical trials. Two studies using subcutaneous sumatriptan 6mg, both reported by Ekbom,1,2 examined the 6mg subcutaneous dose.

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