Finally, we noted a persistence of the attacks during puerperium and breast-feeding.
Under these overwhelming conditions, in the case of persistence of the severe asthma attack, ventilatory muscles cannot sustain adequate tidal volumes and respiratory failure ensues.
In presence of CM and medication overuse, a vicious circle is built up, and the medication overuse becomes responsible of the persistence of the high frequency of the attacks (Medication Overuse Headache or MOH) and lack of responsiveness to the abortive and to most preventive medications.
In our opinion, the persistence of pain attacks with vegetative involvement in a chronic phase of stroke was due to an aberrant activation of trigeminovascular system by hypothalamospinal tract via the peri-acqueductal gray matter.
Gentile et al. [7] suggested that cluster headache may be generated primarily from within the brain, an idea concurring with the study by Matharu and Goadsby [8], showing the persistence of cluster headache attacks after complete surgical section of the trigeminal sensory roots.
A 15-year-old girl with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) was admitted to our hospital because of the persistence of recurrent fever attacks (twice a month), accompanied by chest and abdominal pain with headache, despite taking colchicine at a high dose (2 mg/kg per day).
The destabilisation of Pakistan itself, as an ally of America in the war against the Taliban, may also be an aim.An explanation for the persistence of anti-Shia attacks may paradoxically be that the various Sunni sectarian groups are also suppliers of manpower for the jihad against India in Kashmir, which, according to Delhi, has been unofficially sponsored by the Pakistani government.
The deadly attack demonstrates the persistence of the Afghan insurgency and the way former mujahedeen leaders, like Maulavi Haqqani, combine tactics and forces with Al Qaeda and other foreign terrorist groups.
Steroids and verapamil, as well as subcutaneous sumatriptan in acute attacks, were started with cessation of the CH attacks and persistence of migraine attacks.
SAP is associated with a mortality rate of up to 30% and is characterized by the persistence of a systemic inflammatory response 48 hours after the onset of the attack [ 2].
