A5.2.1.1 Delayed-onset persistent headache attributed to moderate or severe traumatic injury to the headHartmut Gobel2018-01-31T16:09:34+00:00
Diagnostic criteria:
- Any headache fulfilling criteria C and D
- Traumatic injury to the head has occurred, associated with at least one of the following:
- loss of consciousness for >30 minutes
- Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) <13
- post-traumatic amnesia lasting >24 hours
- alteration in level of awareness for >24 hours
- imaging evidence of a traumatic head injury such as skull fracture, intracranial haemorrhage and/or brain contusion
- Headache is reported to have developed between 7 days and 3 months after all of the following:
- the head injury
- regaining of consciousness following the head injury (when applicable)
- discontinuation of medication(s) impairing ability to sense or report headache following the head injury (when applicable)
- Headache persists for >3 months after its onset
- Not better accounted for by another ICHD-3 diagnosis.