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Hereditary haemochromatosis in two cousins with cluster headache.
Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache - 1 May 2002
Stovner L J, Hagen K, Waage A, Bjerve K S
Abstract excerpt
A 60-year-old woman with secondary chronic cluster headache had increased serum ferritin and serum transferrin saturation and was homozygous for the C282Y mutation in the HFE gene, which is indicative of hereditary haemochromatosis. Treatment with venesection that normalized her iron stores led to a radical improvement of her headache complaints that had been daily for several years. Later, the headache returned...
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