Template:Headache DDX
Headache
Common
Killers
- Meningitis/encephalitis
- Intracranial Hemorrhage (ICH)
- SAH / sentinel bleed
- Acute obstructive hydrocephalus
- Space occupying lesions
- CVA
- CO Poisoning
- Basilar artery dissection
- Preeclampsia
- Cerebral venous thrombosis
- Hypertensive emergency
- Depression
Maimers
- Temporal arteritis
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (aka Pseudotumor Cerebri)
- Acute Glaucoma
- Acute sinusitis
Others
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- TMJ pain
- Post-lumbar puncture headache
- Dehydration
- Analgesia abuse
- Various ocular and dental problems
- Herpes zoster ophthalmicus
- Herpes zoster oticus
- Cryptococcosis
- Febrile headache
- Ophthalmoplegic migraine (dx of exclusion)
Aseptic Meningitis
- Viral
- Varicella
- Herpes
- Enterovirus
- West Nile
- Tuberculosis
- Lyme disease
- Syphilis
- Fungal (AIDS, transplant, chemotherapy, chronic steroid use)
- Noninfectious
- Sarcoidosis
- Vasculitis
- Connective tissues disease