Template:Headache DDX

Common

1. Migraine Headache
2. Tension Headache
3. Cluster Headache

Killers

1. Meningitis/encephalitis
2. SAH / sentinel bleed
3. Intracranial Hemorrhage (ICH) (subdura/epidural)
4. Acute obstructive hydrocephalus
5. Space occupying lesions
6. CVA
7. CO Poisoning
8. Basilar artery dissection
9. Preeclampsia
10. Cerebral Venous Thrombosis (pregnancy/post-partum)
11. Hypertensive Emergency
12. Depression

Maimers

1. Temporal Arteritis (>50yrs & ESR)
2. Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri)
3. Acute glaucoma
4. Acute sinusitis

Others

1. Trigeminal neuralgia
2. TMJ pain
3. Post LP Headache/ low CSF
4. Dehydration
5. Analgesia abuse
6. Eye, dental, or derm cause
7. Febrile HA