Caracterización clínica de pacientes con migraña en el Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo en el periodo 2017 – 2020.

Abstract

Objective: To identify the possible ways of clinical onset of migraine in patients diagnosed with this illness, so it can be of reference to health personnel for a better diagnostic and treatment control. Methodology and results: This is a descriptive, retrospective, observational and cross-sectional study that included 220 patients registered in the Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital system in the period 2017-2020. Sex, age of onset, neurological signs, otorhinolaryngological signs, type of migraine and associated risk factors. The average age of the population studied was 48 years, with the female sex being affected in most cases with 174 cases out of 220 in total, which is equivalent to 79.09%. The most frequent neurological sign was irritability with 100 cases, corresponding to 45.45%, while the otorhinolaryngological sign was vertigo with 174 cases, meaning 79.09%. The type of migraine that was most frequently found was migraine without aura with 171 cases, indicating 77.7%. And the risk factor that was found in 62 patients of the 220, which is equivalent to 28.18%, was arterial hypertension and diabetes. Conclusion: The female sex has a greater tendency to present migraine, on average, at 48 years of age. The most common type of migraine is migraine without aura, regardless of gender, in both types of migraine vertigo and irritability can be found most frequently. Arterial Hypertension and Diabetes were risk factors associated with the patients, although they did not intervene in the clinical presentation of their type of migraine.