HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUTARY-ADRENAL AXIS INVESTIGATION IN MIGRANEOUS PATIENTS

Mehmet Zarifoğlu, Asuman Ali, İsmail Hakkı Ulus, Mustafa Bakar, İbrahim Bora, Ö.Faruk Turan, Sadık Sadıkoğlu, Erhan Oğul

In this study, in the patients with migraine, who admitted to Uludağ University, Medical Faculty, Neurology outpatient Department in 1993-1994; Dexamethason Suppression Test and Prolactin Stimulation Test have been studied for investigating of hypothalamic pitutary axis function and also in healty controls.

Our resutls showed that the hypothalamic pıtutary-adrenal axis which played a role on the pathogenesis of Migraine as a part of primary central involvement.