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A Review of 30 Cases

Martin L. Lapkin, MD; Gerald S. Golden, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1978;132(3):278-281.

Abstract
• Thirty patients with basilar artery migraine were followed up for a period of six months to three years. The mean age of onset was 7 years. The patients were seen with recurrent transient attacks of neurological disturbances localized to the vertebrobasilar arterial tree. Attacks often included pulsatile cephalagia. A history of migraine was present in 86% of the families studied. The majority of family members with migraine were female and on the maternal side. Permanent neurological residua developed in only one patient. There was a tendency for attacks to be more severe with an older age of onset. Basilar artery migraine is a migraine variant that may affect children from late infancy through adolescence.

(Am J Dis Child 132:278-281, 1978)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Division of Child Neurology, Department of Neurology, Walson Army Hospital, Fort Dix, NJ 08640 (Dr Lapkin).

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