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Neurovascular Compression-Induced Intracranial Allodynia May Be the True Nature of Migraine Headache: an Interpretative Review

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Abstract

Purpose of Review

Surgical deactivation of migraine trigger sites by extracranial neurovascular decompression has produced encouraging results and challenged previous understanding of primary headaches. However, there is a lack of in-depth discussions on the pathophysiological basis of migraine surgery. This narrative review provides interpretation of relevant literature from the perspective of compressive neuropathic etiology, pathogenesis, and pathophysiology of migraine.

Recent Findings

Vasodilation, which can be asymptomatic in healthy subjects, may produce compression of cranial nerves in migraineurs at both extracranial and intracranial entrapment-prone sites. This may be predetermined by inherited and acquired anatomical factors and may include double crush-type lesions. Neurovascular compression can lead to sensitization of the trigeminal pathways and resultant cephalic hypersensitivity. While descending (central) trigeminal activation is possible, symptomatic intracranial sensitization can probably only occur in subjects who develop neurovascular entrapment of cranial nerves, which can explain why migraine does not invariably afflict everyone. Nerve compression–induced focal neuroinflammation and sensitization of any cranial nerve may neurogenically spread to other cranial nerves, which can explain the clinical complexity of migraine. Trigger dose-dependent alternating intensity of sensitization and its synchrony with cyclic central neural activities, including asymmetric nasal vasomotor oscillations, may explain the laterality and phasic nature of migraine pain. Intracranial allodynia, i.e., pain sensation upon non-painful stimulation, may better explain migraine pain than merely nociceptive mechanisms, because migraine cannot be associated with considerable intracranial structural changes and consequent painful stimuli.

Summary

Understanding migraine as an intracranial allodynia could stimulate research aimed at elucidating the possible neuropathic compressive etiology of migraine and other primary headaches.

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Macionis, V. Neurovascular Compression-Induced Intracranial Allodynia May Be the True Nature of Migraine Headache: an Interpretative Review. Curr Pain Headache Rep 27, 775–791 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-023-01174-7

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