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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2006
Rami Burstein, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Catherine C. Turkel, Newport Coast, CA (US);
Mitchell F. Brin, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Rami Burstein, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Catherine C. Turkel, Newport Coast, CA (US);
Mitchell F. Brin, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Allergan, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
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.