Early responses in randomized clinical trials of triptans in acute migraine treatment. Are they clinically relevant? A comment

P Tfelt‐Hansen - Headache: The Journal of Head and Face …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
(Headache 2010; 50: 1198‐1200) One can question the clinical relevance of early
headache responses after oral and intranasal triptans. Thus, for pain‐free the early …

Migraine treatment with rizatriptan and almotriptan: a crossover study

DS Ng‐Mak, XH Hu, M Bigal - … : The Journal of Head and Face …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Background.—Rizatriptan and almotriptan are effective and well‐tolerated triptans that have
not been compared directly. Objective.—To evaluate the effectiveness of rizatriptan 10 mg …

Almotriptan: a novel 5-HT1B/D agonist for the symptomatic treatment of migraine

J Pascual - Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Currently available oral triptans are not ideal, at least for 20–30% of migraine patients, due
to either response failure or adverse events. Almotriptan is a novel selective 5-HT1B/D …

Therapeutic benefit of eletriptan compared to sumatriptan for the acute relief of migraine pain—results of a model-based meta-analysis that accounts for encapsulation

JW Mandema, E Cox, J Alderman - Cephalalgia, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
A novel model-based meta-analysis was used to quantify the dose-response relationship of
sumatriptan and eletriptan for the proportion of patients that achieve migraine pain relief up …

Revisiting the efficacy of sumatriptan therapy during the aura phase of migraine

SK Aurora, PM Barrodale, SA McDonald… - … : The Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Objective.—To reexamine the efficacy of terminating migraine headache by administration of
sumatriptan during the visual‐aura phase of the attack. Background.—Although the …

Oral almotriptan vs oral sumatriptan in the abortive treatment of migraine: a double-blind, randomized, parallel-group, optimum-dose comparison

ELH Spierings, B Gomez-Mancilla, DE Grosz… - Archives of …, 2001 - jamanetwork.com
Background Almotriptan malate is a novel, selective serotonin 1B/D agonist, or triptan,
developed for the abortive treatment of migraine. In double-blind, placebo-controlled …

Almotriptan: a review of its use in migraine

SJ Keam, KL Goa, DP Figgitt - Drugs, 2002 - Springer
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Almotriptan versus rizatriptan in patients with migraine in Spain

R Leira, E Dualde, H Del Barrio… - … : The Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives.—To compare patient‐reported use of rizatriptan 10 mg with that of almotriptan
12.5 mg per migraine attack (24 hours) in a Spanish population. Methods.—One hundred …

Almotriptan efficacy in migraine with allodynia: a critique of Schoenen et al.

R Burstein, M Jakubowski - Cephalalgia, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
In a randomized, double-blind, cross-over, multicentre study, Schoenen and his colleagues
(Cephalalgia 2008; 28: 1095–105) examined whether the efficacy of triptan migraine …

Pain free efficacy of sumatriptan in the early treatment of migraine

SE Jelinski, WJ Becker, SN Christie… - Canadian journal of …, 2006 - cambridge.org
Background: There is evidence that headache response rates may be higher if triptans are
used early when a migraine attack is still mild, as compared to when it is treated after pain …