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Long-term Prognosis For Basilar Migraines
Key Points:
- A Migraine-type defined by the presence of Migraine headache with neurological symptoms which begin either in the base of the brain or from both sides of the brain at the same time; i.e. brainstem or both cerebral hemispheres.
- Many compare this Migraine type more to hemiplegic Migraine (Migraine type with weakness) than to Migraine with typical aura (99% visual symptoms). Those with less understanding of this Migraine consider it as “atypical or complicated” aura.
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