Template:Headache DDX
Headache
Common
Killers
- Meningitis/encephalitis
- SAH / sentinel bleed
- Intracranial Hemorrhage (ICH) (subdura/epidural)
- Acute obstructive hydrocephalus
- Space occupying lesions
- CVA
- CO Poisoning
- Basilar artery dissection
- Preeclampsia
- Cerebral Venous Thrombosis (pregnancy/post-partum)
- Hypertensive Emergency
- Depression
Maimers
- Temporal Arteritis (>50yrs & ESR)
- Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri)
- Acute glaucoma
- Acute sinusitis
Others
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- TMJ pain
- Post-Lumbar Puncture Headache/ low CSF
- Dehydration
- Analgesia abuse
- Eye, dental problem, or derm cause
- Febrile headache