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Do you use triptan medications in patients with asymptomatic critical intracranial artery stenosis?

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Neurology · Greater Boston Headache Center at Boston Advanced Medicine
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Although the triptans are selective vasoconstrictors for the cranial non-cerebral circulation, I would not use them here for medicolegal reasons. Instead, I would use a gepant for abortive migraine treatment, which I think is the abortive migraine medication of choice in patients with demonstrated c...

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