MIGRAINE AND STROKE IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE

Over 3 years we evaluated two patients, an adolescent and a child, wit h migraine-like headache and ischemic stroke. Based on our clinical ob servations and on literature review of migraine and stroke in the pedi atric age group, we believe that the criteria of migrainous infarction outlined by the International Headache Society (IHS) could be occasio nally too restrictive. Therefore, we suggest subclassifying migrainous infarction into: (i) ''definite'', referring to the patients whose is chemic stroke fulfills all the IHS criteria, (ii) ''possible'', referr ing to ischemic strokes which fulfill some, but not all, criteria. Thi s subclassification of migrainous infarction may be relevant in clinic al practice and in human research studies.