Volume 26, Issue 129, November 2022

Role of head CT in diagnosis of headache in Saudi population

Ali Hassan A Ali^1,2♦, Omar O Serhan³, Nawaf Majed Alqahtani⁴, Khalid Hassan Alarjani⁴, Faisal Turki J Alqahtani⁴, Faisal Abdulaziz O Alghamdi⁴, Ali Ababtain⁴, Saeed Moraya Alqahtani⁴, Maan Omar Alzuhairi⁴, Abdulelah Muaythir ALmuaythir⁴, Salman Bader Alhusaini⁴, Ameer S Alsaad⁴

¹Anatomy Department, College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, KSA
²Anatomy Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
³Radiology Department, King Khalid Hospital, Ministry of Health, AlKharj, KSA
⁴College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, KSA

^♦Corresponding author
Anatomy Department, College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, KSA; Anatomy Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

ABSTRACT

One of the most common global public health issues that results in a large demand for medical services is headache disorders. It is one of the most prevalent complaints in clinical practice globally and as a result, it has a significant social cost. The goal of the study was to determine whether or not patients needed neurological imaging for a correct diagnosis and to provide guidelines for the use of computed tomography in the diagnostic process. The investigation conducted from February 2022 to September 2022 at the Radiology Department of King Khalid Hospital in Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia. Across sectional study that used the CT scan documentation found in the patient files of patients who were referred to the radiology department with headaches of any kind. There were 197 patients in the data. There were 90 females and 107 males. The causes of headaches varied among Saudi citizens; tension headaches were the most common variety, accounting for 25.3% % of all headache patients, followed by cluster headaches (23.8%) and migraines, which had the lowest proportionality. The majority of patients had normal CT scan results. The public health agenda must include headache diseases. The predominance of primary headaches is tension, migraine and cluster headaches. There is statistically no significance or need for a CT scan if there are no anticipated or existing injuries or conditions that could endanger life.

Keywords: Headache, CT, Migraine, Tension Type, Cluster, Saudi

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms483e2576

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i129/ms483e2576

Published: 21 November 2022