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What is the appropriate workup and treatment for patients with SMART syndrome following radiation for brain tumors?

For stroke-like migraine attacks after radiation therapy (SMART syndrome), does your management of these patient's change with recurrent episodes? How frequently is that seen?
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Neurology · Wake Forest School of Medicine
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Stroke-like migraine attacks after radiation therapy (SMART) is a late presentation after treatment for a CNS malignancy (or brain radiation for another cause; e.g., prophylactic cranial radiation). It is one of many late effects of radiation therapy. Others may include vasculopathy, cognitive dysfu...

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