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Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2006
Applicants:

Rami Burstein, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);

Catherine C. Turkel, Newport Coast, CA (US);

Mitchell F. Brin, Newport Beach, CA (US);

Inventors:

Rami Burstein, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);

Catherine C. Turkel, Newport Coast, CA (US);

Mitchell F. Brin, Newport Beach, CA (US);

Assignee:

Allergan, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 39/08 (2006.01); A61K 38/48 (2006.01); A61K 9/00 (2006.01); C07K 14/33 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 38/4893 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for treating a headache by selecting a patient determined to be responsive to administration of a botulinum neurotoxin for treatment of a headache by determining that the patient has or has a propensity to have an imploding headache and/or an ocular headache pain and administering a botulinum toxin to the patient, thereby treating the headache. A method for selecting from a population of patients with headache or with a propensity to have a headache, those patients whose headache will respond to administration of a botulinum neurotoxin by identifying from a population of patients with headache or with a propensity to have a headache those patients who have or who have a propensity to have an imploding headache pain and/or an ocular headache pain.


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